Diane Paulus Quotes

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.

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

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I love to conduct opera.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

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

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

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

I'd like to direct more operas.

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

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

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

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

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

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.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

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