The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

No, make it lighter, people; this is Baroque music.