Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'