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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"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."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"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."
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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
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