An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
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