Opera Quotes
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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
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This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
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I'd like to direct more operas.
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
