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.

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

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.

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

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

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.