know,

it's nice to sort of collect operas and do this as a job, but that was kind of where I was aiming for in life, and I kind of...

I got there quite soon, I guess.

So I kind of thought the singing would kind of slow down a bit and I'd have more time to do other things.

You know, I was very much helped as a young singer.

I had to sort of learn everything.

The guy, Michael Elizon, found me in Italy and brought me over to Curtis in 1997.

Tell me more about, you're saying, this all-encompassing education that you want to give the singers over these weeks? Yeah, so I