“It gets [an audience] in the door, but 20 rows back, no one can tell the difference. You really can’t. … “[If] you’re going to see Erwin Schrott or Anna Netrebko and they’re really hot and you tell [people] this enough times, even if they’re sitting 50 rows back they’re going to think, ‘Wow, I’m watching a really sexy, attractive person onstage.’ And their brain fills in what the eye is not catching.”