I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.