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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

"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 great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."

"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."

"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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"I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute."
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