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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'
I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976.
Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.
When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.
I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.
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