The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.”
“I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.”