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"Opera is so much about the past and [this] is blatantly current. It's a political issue. To approach it through music is marvelous." |
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"Opera has a couple of demands. It needs action, it needs events and it has to have strong feelings about those events." |
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"The demands on a singer in a new commission are, first, to be as loyal as possible to what the composer has written." |
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