So what I would do, my routine was, I would eat lunch about 3 p .m., and then about 6 o 'clock, I would go to the theater, and I would warm up, speak to people, and usually by intermission, you know, this, a turntable, which meant that the scenes rotated on the turntable, so there was no, there was only one intermission, and that make, I think that makes, to accept, and so the intermission happens before, a fi ben mio, and di quella pietra, which you're right, are two of the hardest things a tenor has to sing, you have to sing half the opera, and at intermission, I went down to the cantina to have a bowl of soup, and just thought, you know what, nothing's going to happen tonight, and as I was sitting there, one of the musical staff came running in the door and said, Marcello says he doesn't feel well, I think they need you upstairs, and I walked into the dressing room area, and the man who was standing at the, he's sitting in there in his underwear, I've got the pants, you need to get here, and get in here, and put them on, wow, I thought all along, I thought it would be this big discussion, this big, and it was just musical staff and dressers deciding, he's not going back out, he is, so at that point, they asked me, they said, how much time before, I didn't need rehearsal or anything like that, I wasn't nervous about that, we just ran through a quick couple of sections, you know, at the Met, and conductor, you know, I never had any problems following or working with a conductor, so it was, it was not going to be difficult for me, I knew I was fine, I had done a lot of the rehearsals, I had done a lot of rehearsals with Dmitri Horoskovsky, every night also, there's another thing, this particular production starts off with a sword fight between, to do that, because Dmitri, because Dmitri, he forgot that we were playing most of the time, and he would just, he would try to kill you, and so, sadly, he just passed away, you know, yes, he did, he did, sadly, he did, what a wonderful man, yeah, so it, I remember walking towards Don't worry, we'll turn the Pavarotti mics on for you, and I looked at him, I said, there are no microphones at the Met, he goes, I know, but we always tell Alanya that, because he's convinced that Alanya, that Pavarotti always sang with mics, so whenever Alanya sings, we just tell her, I shouldn't say, I shouldn't say that about Alanya, but that was what the dresser told me, and he's retired now, so it's, it's safe, and so I just went out, it was funny, I mean, I sang the Asi Ben Mio, the crowd went nuts, they were throwing pieces of the program down on the stage, and Sandra Rodvinovsky, her back was to the audience, and she was talking to me, and she's saying, bite your lip to get more saliva, bite your lip, and then we did the Di Quella Piura, and I remember in the middle of it, I didn't realize this, but they had staged the men in the chorus to give me a drink from their canteens, you know, to give me some water while I'm singing, and I turned around in the middle of Di Quella Piura, where I'm not singing, and these, these chorus guys were shoving the water in my face, and I thought, oh, I, I guess I can have a drink, so I took a drink, you know, sang that, sang, sang it and everything, we, it was, it was a successful debut, it was, it was unusual, the next day, it was on all the newspapers all over the world, but what people didn't realize, people did not realize, that my wife was dying, we did not know if she was going to get a liver, and she got a liver on the 21st of March, we did not know, and so that's, I sang the next, I sang the complete next performance as well, and yeah, people do not, people, she did, she, but people don't, people don't know, that's why when I walked out, Dimitri ran over and hugged me the way he did, praise God, I heard, I read that in one of the reviews, he hugged you at the curtain call, yes, yes, that people don't, nobody knew, nobody outside the Met knew, that my wife needed a liver transplant, and if she didn't get it soon, she was going to die, her organs were shutting down, her male score was up to 36, she'd been waiting for several years, and that's why Dimitri ran over and hugged me the way he did, nobody, I've never told, I've never told anybody, that's why Sondra was holding on to me the way she was, that's why all that happened the way it did, is because those people knew, they knew me, they knew my testimony, they knew my wife was sick, the Met knew my wife was sick, everybody backstage was was praying, whether they were believers or not, everybody at the Met was praying for my wife, and we all, everybody knew that, the reviewers didn't know that, the audience didn't know that, but that's the circumstances with which I made my debut.