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 Copy Share Image
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. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
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