When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.