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Pierre Boulez
I once said that the most elegant solution of the problem of opera was to blow up the opera houses, and I still think this true . Opera is the area before all others in which things have stood still.
Pierre Boulez, in 1990

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  • Pierre Boulez, Orientations: Collected Writings in English translation by Martin Cooper, Harvard University Press, 1990, p.485.