1.   But both are committed to doing more operas.

2.   He never learned to talk, but he can wolf whistle like a pro and does some opera singing when I coax him.

3.   He wants to do opera.

4.   I just did an opera where, in movement, gesture and action, I had to depict a story.

5.   It was also wonderful to share this experience with Sharon Graham and Barbara Bonney, with whom I had just done the opera in Paris.

6.   Of course, there is more riding on whether an opera is done right than on whether, say, a piano sonata is done right.

7.   The only reason you do an opera is because of the music.

8.   Would she do the opera differently today?

9.   You do operas by Verdi and Richard Strauss.