William Bolcom Quotes

I'd like to direct more operas.

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 really fun.

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

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

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.

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

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.

I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to do it. I would certainly write a ballet or... I've done a lot of stage before.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

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.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

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 love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

'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.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

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

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

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.

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.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big opera. I want a lot of people on stage, elephants and marching stuff, and the modern stuff I don't care for.