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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 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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"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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"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
Quality
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
Opera
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
Ignorance
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
God
"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."
Life
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
Art
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