In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
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Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.