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. - SearchQuotes

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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.

Carlisle Floyd

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