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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."
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"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"Writing is an antidote for loneliness."
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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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"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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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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