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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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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."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"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."
"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."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"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."
"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."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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