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Robert Ashley

"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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Robert Ashley
"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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Robert Ashley
"Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid."

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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."

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Aberjhani

"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."

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Aberjhani

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."

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Aberjhani

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

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