You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.

Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

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It's such an important work in the development of opera as an art form - the orchestra is not just accompanying, it's playing a big part in telling the story.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

— Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

— Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

— Alexander Pope

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.

— John Milton