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Gian Carlo Menotti

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."

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Donna Grant

"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."

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Donna Grant

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

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Donna Grant

"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"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

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."

Quality

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."

Ignorance

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

Art

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."

Opera

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Gian Carlo Menotti
"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."

Life

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