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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."
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"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."
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"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
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"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."
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"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
Opera
"If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come."
Music
"I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world."
Time
"But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher."
Life
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