Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it..

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life..

Better to be screwed physically than financially..

There was a time when He was not..

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

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage..

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful..

Faith is agreeing with God and saying what He says about you..

When I began to read, I began to exist.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit..

I'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas..

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up..

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

We are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos..

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, o….

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy..

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley..