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" Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. "

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" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "

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" All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.' "

" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "

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" The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that. "

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