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The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

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.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I would love to sing opera.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

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 for a lifetime, not just a minute.