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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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
"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."
"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."
"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"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."
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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