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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
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My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
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My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
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People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
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People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
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