"Nobody can predict the future, but there is nobody in my generation who wants to be on the board of a symphony orchestra or an opera company and raise the kind of money that's needed. I think that the energy that in the 19th century went into opera is, in the 20th century, going into films. Films have that same over-the-top, overwhelming, high impact--all of the senses knocked out--and vast popular following, with stars who are larger than life. Well, that's what opera did in the 19th century."
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University of California, Los Angeles facultyTheatre directorsMacArthur FellowsPeople from Pittsburgh
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In: Mark Swed, "For L.A., History's Knocking", Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1996
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