"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."
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"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."
"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 feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
"If this helps to open your eyes to what is more just, what is more equal, then that is one of the things to take away from this experience today."
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
"Our story is about this particular journey. It's a different journey, but the same journey that I think other people have had as well. "
"I think one of the hardest things to do is to strive for perfection and then have the humility to recognize that you did your best."