“When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.” EyeMusicianSingersBalletOperaChorusStaging Author:Placido Domingo
“What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?” SourceMusicianConcertsOperaTicketsMinimumMinimum WagePower Of Music Author:Itay Talgam
“Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.” RunningHouseStageOughtDirectorsMusicianProductionsManagersOperaOpera House Author:Laurence Equilbey
“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.” ShouldKindEndsGamesJusticeAudienceStageMediaMusicianTheaterMediumsSoccerHockeyOperaPitsTheatricalHybridEither OrPlaying Soccer Author:Christoph Waltz
“Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.” MadeEndsPoorSuccessfulRichWonderfulMetsKissingMusicianDecidedDiedSingersOperaTomsDocumentariesGenesisMansionsMilanOpera SingersDressersVerdiHardwood Author:Dustin Hoffman
“You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.” PeopleThinkingYearsRealEndsWould BeMusicianDecidedCastsPhonesExpectedSingersOperaBeing RealRetiredTunnelsOpera Singers Author:Dustin Hoffman
“One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.” WayGivingKindBookDifferentAbleFilmSongPiecesCrazyMusicianMusic IsGood ThingsHeavyRangeQueensMetalsOperaEpicListening To MusicGood BookDifferent PlaceHeavy MetalGood FilmsBohemianBohemian Rhapsody Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho
“I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.” PlayYoungSpeakMusicianSingersHorizonOperaChamberAdviseChamber Music Author:Wu Han
“My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.” MotherFatherSidesMastersMusicianPerformancesConcertsBalletOperaUnclesAuntRehearsal Author:Lalo Schifrin
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” SoundMusicMusicianMusic IsHumorousProfoundMusicalWittyInsaneClassicOperaClassical MusicJazz MusicWagnerArt And MusicFunny MusicGreat MusicianClassic MusicSound And MusicMusical LifeMusic TeacherFun MusicLiterature And MusicMusic Culture Author:Mark Twain
“My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.” ParentVoiceGrowing UpTeacherGrowingMusicianSingersDancerOperaRock N RollOpera Singers Author:Sandra Bullock