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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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"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."
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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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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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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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"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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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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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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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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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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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."
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"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
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"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
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"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
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