Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
I was an elementary school teacher.
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
I am a very superstitious person.
