If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. (Sarah Caldwell)

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Sarah Caldwell

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