“For heaven’s sake, learn to act also; learn that there are new works to be interpreted, new operatic tendencies to be fostered, new things clamoring at our doors to urge us forward; learn that opera to-day is not a costume concert, but a throbbing, vital, human portrayal of loves and hates and passions; learn that to-day a voice without a brain is like faith without works.” [New York Times]

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