One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.
"But I always say opera is a virus: you look for places and opportunities to spread it around, so that people get infected and come back and actually see the real thing in the opera house".
"I don't think there's such a thing as profit in opera".
And James Jorden, in the New York Post, said, "If such a thing as perfection in opera is possible, in this 'House of the Dead,' the Met achieves it".
The only thing that working in opera has done for me, really, is to make me much better at crosswords than I would have been otherwise".
Fundamentally changing the way the performing arts can be delivered to audiences, the broadcasts are the most important thing to happen in opera since the advent of translated supertitles in the early 1980s.
Gennaro falls for Lucrezia instantly, as things often happen in opera, until he discovers that she is the reviled Lucrezia Borgia, who willfully poisons rivals in love and in politics.
Featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1975, she was dubbed by them "Music's Wonder Woman" and called "the single best thing about opera in America".
