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“Modern audiences are dwindling, there’s less and less interest, the audience is becoming more ignorant and suburbanized. Eventually everything will come to the level of Southern California. You’ve got such idiotic critics there. It’s casting pearls before swine. They are completely provincial and don’t know anything.”

--British director Jonathan Miller, in San Diego edition of The Times. He has staged “Tristan,” “Mikado” and “Mahagonny” for the Music Center Opera.