"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."
"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."