"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
"There was a palpable feeling building in the audience that we knew she would make it to the finish line in breathtaking form."
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."
"When you're dealing with these amazing artists on stage who have these different ways of expression, really the music can go anywhere."
"When you think about it, love is just something that you have to distract you from what's going on with your death."
"They're not traditional fodder for making of opera stories. But they are love stories, actually, at the heart of each of them. Really broke and screwed-up love stories."
Dupuis, Garanča, Gordon, Puts, Reif and Du Yun
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