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But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I love to conduct opera.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.