There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
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.
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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.
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 the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
In opera, there is always too much singing.
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.