The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it..

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem….

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual….

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing..

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen..

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit..

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at le….

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the….

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23..

I'm not a reactionary..

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a….

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work..

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that ma….

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time..

Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity hel….

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes..

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used thei….

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut..

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and ….

I was always a very good student..

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in….