Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
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I am not of the opinion, that works of art must be unconditionally linked to what was happening at the time they were created.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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