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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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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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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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"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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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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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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"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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"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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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."
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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."
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"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."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."
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"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."
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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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