Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley

"I am transported to a place and time where there is no disorder. There's disorder on stage," he says. "We don't believe it. We do believe what happens in movies... Therefore opera can have no plot." The story might as well be told at the kitchen table with a crazy aunt and uncle as the soprano and tenor, adds Miyazaki.

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