"When you think about it, love is just something that you have to distract you from what's going on with your death."
"They're not traditional fodder for making of opera stories. But they are love stories, actually, at the heart of each of them. Really broke and screwed-up love stories."
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"Any woman who can put herself into Tosca's shoes, make it through the whole evening and come off stage with their head held high - you've done a great thing."
"The emotional situations; I live for these these things as a composer. I live for the moments when I can let these situations wash over me and let music come out. This is why I do it."
"I myself am very contemplative about everything. I don't necessarily wear my emotions on my sleeve, but when I'm on stage as an opera singer something just changes and I just become this extremely emotive person."
"I am not, as an artist, trying to be anyone else. I am Michael Fabiano. I am imperfect. I make mistakes. But I also am proud of the music that I make..."
"I honestly think that there is nothing more gaslighting than this opera. Even the orchestra speaks for her before she can."