Bruce Beresford Quotes

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.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

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.

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

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

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.

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

I'd like to direct more operas.

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

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.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

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'm an opera lover.

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

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

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

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.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

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.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.