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

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.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

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

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

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.