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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"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."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
Explore more quotes by Luciano Pavarotti
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other."
"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them."
"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
"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."
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