Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
I would love to sing opera.
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.
The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. I studied diction, breathing control, phrasing, why the song means something. You want to bring that across to your listeners.
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
I'd like to direct more operas.
I want to do rock operas.
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.