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"When I was asked to write an opera, the first thing I said was, 'I'm not a poet. It's the music that's going to add the dimension of the poetry.'" |
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"This is an opera inspired by Dead Man Walking. It is not a documentary." |
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"The challenge is that these are living people. Opera raises the stakes in the sense [that] they become not mythological, but archetypal." |
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