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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."
"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
"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."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"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 try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come."
"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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