Pastoral Resources

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.