"In opera, there is always too much singing."

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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."

"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."

"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."

"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."

"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

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"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."

"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."

"A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"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."

"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."

"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part."