Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

  • -- Gian Carlo Menotti 梅诺蒂

任何主题都适合歌剧,如果作曲家如此专注地感受它,他必须把它唱出来。

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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

伟大的作曲家不是因为受到启发而开始创作,而是因为工作而变得有灵感。贝多芬、瓦格纳、巴赫和莫扎特日复一日地埋头于手头的工作,就像会计师每天埋头于他的数字一样有条不紊。他们没有浪费时间等待灵感。

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

我成了,而且仍然是,我的角色的密切而专注的观察者:他们的导演,从来没有。他们的创造者我不能感觉到我曾经是,或者现在是。

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

一个人如果想充分利用自己的机会,就会因为太忙而无暇顾及运气。

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

我一直是个依赖文本的作曲家。