Q&A: The Real-Life Love Story Behind Arizona Opera’s ‘Carmen’

There's something so magical about the theater. What you hear is actually the sound that comes out of our mouth — we are not amplified. This is really soul to soul: the soul that is projecting on stage, and the soul that is receiving in the hall. I feel in this modern world there's less and less of those encounters, so I hope people will still seek out those encounters, because that's what makes us human.

– Maya Lahyani