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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
- French
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
- Feeling
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
- Music
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I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
- Least
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For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
- Studying
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I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
- Space
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Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.
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Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
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I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.
- Music
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My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.
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Opera is really fun.
- Economic
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Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.
- Music
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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
- Deemed
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Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
- Going
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I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.
- Lyrics
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
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I would love to sing opera.
- Make
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You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.
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When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
- Craft
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
- Mother
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Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.
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I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
- Never
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I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
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Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.
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I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.
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The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
- Know
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
- Philanthropy
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Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
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What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
- Different
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
- Baseball
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.
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Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
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I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
- Stay
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
- Engagements
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Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
- Choose
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
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Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
- Growing Up
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Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.
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Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
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Lots of opera singers are just boring.
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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.
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