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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

— Kelli O'Hara

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Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

— David Henry Hwang

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