It`s very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn`t there. And I don`t blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn`t make no difference what color they were.
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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