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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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 love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
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Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
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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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Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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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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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
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I'd like to direct more operas.
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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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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.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
