Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I'd like to direct more operas.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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.

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.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

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

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

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'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.

Opera is really fun.

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.