For A Director, The Most

I'd Really Been Interested In Opera When I Was About 16, And I Really Like Staging Them.

Everyone Has Seen Photographs Of Mexicans Wearing Those Big Sombreros. When You Come To Mexico, The Astonishing Thing Is, Nobody Wears These Hats At All.

The Number Of Opera Houses Around The World And The High Attendance Rates Show That Opera An Art Form That Is More Popular Than Ever.

I Thought, This Is Fabulous. It Sent Shivers Up My Spine. I Thought, What Kinds Of People Are These That Would Produce This Kind Of Music In A Camp? All The Prison Camp Stories I've Seen, And Heard Of, Were About The Heroism Of Men. As I Researched This And Heard The Music, I Realized That Women Were Heroic Too, On Just As Grand A Scale. And Their Treatment Was Just As Appalling.

For A Director, The Most Challenging Scenes Are The Dialogue Scenes.