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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I love to conduct opera.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.