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“Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.”

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Author:Graeme Murphy

“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.”

Mean Has Beens Art Made Ends Expression Drama Errors Genre Opera

Book:Prose works

Source: Prose works

“I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.”

Want Seems Might Comedy Rocks Drama Exciting Noses Opera

Author:Jack Black

“Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.”

Way Play Drama Singing Opera

Author:Bruce Beresford

“Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.”

Wells I Can Beautiful Sound Sacrifice Drama Scene Demand Opposites Notes Prepared Meaningful Tone Opera

Book:Bubbles: an encore

Source: Bubbles: an encore

“I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's where I feel comfortable and confident and I get to explore these big human stories and dramas and collaborate with extraordinary people, great talented artists and administrators and other people who are passionate about it and support it. It's like working with a great big family - the family you love and enjoy being with all the time.”

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Author:Jake Heggie

“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.”

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Author:David Wenham

“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.”

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Author:Robert Ashley

“I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.”

Stories Shows Law Games Television Drama Program Guilt Appeals Plot Opera Lots Of Money Soap Detectives Jessica Masons Soap Operas Courtroom Game Shows

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.”

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Author:Howard Rheingold

“It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.”

People Men Art Form Young Music Drama Essentials Glorious Opera Music Love

Author:Bruce Beresford

“In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.”

Men Book Earth Modern Planets Drama Destruction Worthy Theme Opera Deliberate Soap Planet Earth Habitat Soap Operas Trimming Melville

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.”

Different Facts Together Beautiful Lying Sound Voice Quality Stage Drama Instruments Singers Appeals Opera Possessed Costumes Impressive Backdrop

Book:Japan and ASEAN in East Asia: A Sincere and Open Partnership

Source: Japan and ASEAN in East Asia: A Sincere and Open Partnership