Firsts Quote by Chester Bennington

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

— Shane Koyczan

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are…

— Julia Loktev

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

— Harrison Birtwistle

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about…

— Toni Servillo

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have…

— Tom Stoppard

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery,…

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Sarah Caldwell

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,'…

— Jeff Perry

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera…

— Sarah Caldwell

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked…

— Colin Meloy

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual…

— Tod Machover

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

— Garth Greenwell