Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. — Robert Lepage Copy Share
When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross… — Robert Lepage Copy Share
