"It goes back to that whole thing of find a balance between all of those things, you know, allowing yourself to be in the moment and allowing yourself to be free to respond to things that you may not have thought of."
"This is a great moment to show all the different ways that they did stand up and put in their effort toward finding peace and bringing the soldiers home safely."
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
"This isn’t just a concert. This is a fully-staged 'experience.' It is a way to approach the storytelling that I have never experienced in opera."
"I mainly have been following Wayne Brady's lead when it comes to this role. And then coming back to that to myself and also expressing myself as how I want to be."
"Being seven years older than the first time I did it, I can appreciate now someone who just wants to live their life and expressing the times that we live in." - Wayne Brady
"I feel that new music is actually more linked to us than maybe a Mozart symphony. Music, art in general, somehow evolves with us in the way we experience the world."
Feldstein knew the eyes of the musical-loving world were focused like laser beams on her every move. How many of us would make such a brave decision?
"The one thing I do know is the rest of my days will be about the mission, the various missions. They're all connected. I can no longer just play because it's fun or take a gig because it pays well."