“Perfection is boring."

“Perfection is boring.  Honesty is the most interesting thing on stage. A performer’s role as a human being is to tell a story and to say something.”

Anthony Roth Costanzo, or ARC, celebrated young American countertenor and star of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production, Akhenaten. This quote came from his 2021 acceptance speech for the Beverly Sills Artist Award.