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.

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

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

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

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

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