Matt Bellamy Quotes

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

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.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

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.

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.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

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

My films are larger than life.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

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.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.