In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.