'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.