This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.