From the transcript

And Rosita shared some of the stories and some of the ideas that she had— she just shared with you right now, and about bringing this story to life and seeing it on stage and sung, you know, with the power of opera. And I can't remember, it was probably 10 years ago, and we've been watching this And I remember thinking at the time, I was like trying to in my head coming up with people who could help bring this production to life. And this was 10 years ago. And this is some of the people. These are the people.

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