THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I consider opera a universe all its own.  On stage an opera represents a complete world, a cosmos transformed into music.  I love the gross stylizations of the performances and the grandeur of human emotions, whether they be love, or hate or jealousy or guilt.  I often ask myself do we humans really recognize these archetypes of emotional exaltation and purity that are being enacted on the opera stage? Of course we do, this is what makes opera so beautiful.

Cronin/Herzog