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Well that's just something about modern music - good ideas are not repeated as much.
That said, some ideas he uses a fair amount of times in this opera. A couple of the sea interludes provide a lot of the material of the first act. Plus there's motivic development going on all the time.
"Grimes is at his exercise" theme is used by Grimes when he hits Ellen for "Then God have mercy upon me". (it's almost like a cadence, in lydian). This line is also used as the bass of the passacaglia.
Anyway, fabulous work. It has tremendeous power to move one if one sits through a whole performance in the opera house. (A good performance, that is).
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