That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.