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I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

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.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Opera is really fun.