“I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. M…” — Sondra Radvanovsky

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.

If I can transport audiences for the three or four hours they're at the opera, to make them forget all of their worries, the bills they have to pay and all that, then I've done my job. That, for me, is very gratifying.