very tragic and what makes a great performance for you. a great performance for me is. when i feel that i've connected on a deep level to the character with the with which i'm in body in for the evening and that means i synthesize great music with the words the syntax the text that i'm communicating to the public and if i do that a lot of study there's a lot of study involved in opera but when i feel good about it i know that i've connected to the role i know that i've connected to the character speaking of risks you're a pilot of small aircraft in your spare time which of course is very frightening for some people is flying a kid into thinking you know way too often so it's a great question i think that flying is the same in the same way of saying i think flying is a way for me to be one tracked living in the moment when i sing what's so critical for me is reminding myself that the only job i have to do is communicate incredible music to the public so concurrently being