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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."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
"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 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."
"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."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Placido Domingo
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity."
"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it."
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
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