Fear Quote by Alexandre Desplat

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story…

— Steven Price

I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And no matter…

— Stephen Schwartz

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's…

— Stewart Copeland

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

— M. Jayachandran

I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on…

— M. Jayachandran

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…

— Karen DeCrow

A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice.

— Anonymous

“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters,…

— Arnold Schoenberg

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

— Bruce Beresford