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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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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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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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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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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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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 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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"If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come."
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"But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher."
Life
"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."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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