Daniel Barenboim Quote

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites … There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

Q&A: Daniel Barenboim, 2 November 2012.

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