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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."

"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."

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."

"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."

"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."

"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."

"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera."

"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."

"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them."
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