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Opera Quotes
"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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"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
11
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
10
"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
10
"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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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"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."
8
"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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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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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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"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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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
7
"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'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
6
"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 ."
5
"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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