Bruce Beresford Quotes

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

In musicals, everyone is screaming.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

I'm a dramatist.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Opera is really fun.

I have done a lot of theater.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I was a drama major through college.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.