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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
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"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
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"I really write for people."
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"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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"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."
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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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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"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."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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