You’re a good actor, and you’ve been extremely lucky. And you do not lack individuality. But nevertheless there are many out there like you, and many equally as good as you who won’t have your success.
But great opera singers from Flagstad to Bjoerling to Callas (and on and on), are one-of-a-kind. They take the classic repertory and reimagine and remake it. That would be like you setting new standards in Shakespeare and Racine.
You’re no longer a twink, Mr. C. and it would behoove you to talk like an adult.
Isabel Leonard writes that she “felt shocked that someone so seemingly successful can be so ineloquent and narrow minded in his views about art .”