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"Opera is just like the musicals, only the music is better, and if they're produced properly, they're much more exciting. I've always tried to make opera a human story so that people feel emotionally involved. It mustn't be unbelievable because people need to relate to the characters." Ken Russell, 1987.
The operas (click titles for pages)
1982 The Rake's Progress
(Stravinsky) The plays (click titles for pages)
2000 Weill and Lenya
(Paris and Russell)
Two operas that never made it. Wagner´s Tannhăuser was planned for Geneva in
1985: "I see it as a psychological-schizophrenic trip in Wagner´s mind". Tchaikovsky´s Eugene Onegin-
Ken was invited by Lorin Maazel to direct the opera on the
stage for the Vienna State Opera in 1985: "Maazel saw my Music Lovers and thought I´d be very good doing a Tchaikovsky
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