I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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Nationality: American Type: Politician Born: June 18, 1790 Death: November 17, 1856 |
“And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.”
“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”