What I’m not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that’s how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.

I intend to honor its great traditions and its loyal audience while hopefully arriving at the right formula of exciting new artistic initiative that will fill its seats well into the future.

Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.

I’ve told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and...

My hope is that by the time this new Ring comes along, she will be ready to sing it.