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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
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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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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
"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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