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Opera Quotes
"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."
"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."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"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."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"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."
"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 ."
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"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."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"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."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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