For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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.