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“Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
— Leonard Bernstein
Composer and conductor
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
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