Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20

It (the arrest) won't bring her back, and we're not the kind of family that is all for retribution and hanging him from the highest gallows, but we want him to pay his debt and acknowledge that he did this.

No, make it lighter, people; this is Baroque music.

Grant Park has a 10-week summer season. I don't often play the summer opera (Seattle Opera's August production), and I have no vacation time.

I think opera is probably the exact same thing as boxing-a bunch of big, strangely dressed people making strange noises for a really long time.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.