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![“I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.” quote by Katherine Shindle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/katherine-shindle-47502_chairs_i-m-still-wondering-about-the-phantom-in_2624372.jpg)
![“A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/maurice-sendak-1273_eighty_a-whole-new-world-of-italian-music-was-s_1593395.jpg)
![“Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da7/philip-glass-14533_chorus_satyagraha-is-an-opera-which-i-wrote-for_2434194.jpg)
