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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
Music
"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things."
Art
"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other."
Fight
"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them."
Music
"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
Opera
"It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything."
Work
"The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life."
Life
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
Past
"I was an elementary school teacher."
School
"Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me."
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