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

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

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

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.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

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