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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Placido Domingo
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
"It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years."
"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
"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."
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