"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."

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"It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else."

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"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."

Mother

"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."

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"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."

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"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."

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"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater."

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"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."

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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."

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