"Florence Price was an inspiration to me because she wrote what was part of her and inside of her. Her music is her soul."
"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 made a lot of peace with who I am and how I also am expanding in the various roles that I can take on and feel comfortable in."
"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 do tend to be more private in my grief than other people. So perhaps through the music I can connect in ways that I cannot connect as a person."
"One of my favorite parts about that opening is that it's the beginning of a creative idea in which he starts and stops and then crosses something out right away."
"So I hope this piece doesn't give permission, but acceptance, to people. Hopefully see themselves and feel seen."
"There's always an idea of streaming against the mainstream. From there you find your own identity, you find your own truth, your find your own individuality. That's always something that consciously or unconsciously was something that was always a part of my makeup. "
"I honestly think that there is nothing more gaslighting than this opera. Even the orchestra speaks for her before she can."
"Chucho knows that to get the best out of somebody in his own work he has to give up a part of himself and let it pay forward to the next step of the process."