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One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

- Simon Rattle
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'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

I was thrilled that Sadiq Khan was so in support of the idea of culture being at the centre of a city and the idea that it is everyone's right. It can't be a matter of privilege or chance. It should be something everyone can have in their life, and that means knowing what it is.

'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

I was thrilled that Sadiq Khan was so in support of the idea of culture being at the centre of a city and the idea that it is everyone's right. It can't be a matter of privilege or chance. It should be something everyone can have in their life, and that means knowing what it is.

With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.

American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

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One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.