"I think there may be no greater compliment than having this opera, this music, get people excited about reading Mary Shelley's novel."
"If we want this work to still have resonance, we need to help clear away some of the 100 years of cultural baggage."
"It's a responsibility I'm not sure I can carry. But on the other hand, it's a responsibility I would like to carry."
Music used in "The Exorcist" is back in a 50th anniversary vinyl release.
"I just don't see her as weak because I think it's too easy to say that only weak people become the victims of abuse."
"I don't know if anybody else can create Stranger Life. But what I do know is that nobody else is going to."
"We are all people that are imprisoned in this novel of fiction that we write in our heads every day of our lives."
Two operas, two plays, one jazz concert - all former best bets you have another chance to see
"Her music has that sense of being arresting and shakes us up. But it also just sounds so right and so organic."
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."