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

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

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

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

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

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.