“What I’ve been thinking – just to while away the gaps in the dinner banter about Toronto real-estate prices – is that there can’t be many other nationalities that can devote three hours to watching an opera and then, by way of commenting on the experience, step amid the throng of fellow opera-lovers from the theatre foyer into the crisp, clear air, and, pondering the immensities of beauty and life and death that are still swirling around the memories of so stunning a performance, ask what parking level the car is on.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada) 10/09/00