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I would love to sing opera.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

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

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

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