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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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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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"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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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"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."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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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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"Extreme complication is contrary to art."
Art
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
Music
"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
Love
"The century of airplanes has a right to its own music."
Music
"In opera, there is always too much singing."
Opera
"The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen."
Hope
"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
Nature
"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."
Vision
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Art
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Music
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