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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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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"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."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"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."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"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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