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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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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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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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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"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."
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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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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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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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"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."
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"I really write for people."
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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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"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."
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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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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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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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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
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