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Last updated on October 16, 2024.
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.
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.
'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.
God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.
I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
The only thing is, with me - this may sound weird - there are a lot of R&B singers from that era that I actually don't know. Like, I never grew up on Boyz II Men.
Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.
Reality shows give a great platform to young singers, but kids shouldn't be exposed to showbiz at a very young age.
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.
We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.
The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
I feel blessed and lucky that some of the film industry's most magical and iconic songs where legendary composers and singers have collaborated have been filmed on me.
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when you get something happening in opera.
I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs.
I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
In my lifetime, there have been three vocal miracles: Caruso, Ruffo and Ponselle. Apart from these there have been several wonderful singers.
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 vision.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.
I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track them with themes.
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?
It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.
Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.
I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.
Everybody I've ever seen live sings out of tune, even the greatest singers in the world. And of course if you make a single nowadays, they'll autotune it anyway.
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.
There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
I never smoked myself because it lowers your voice and mine was already low. Some singers liked their smoky voices though, like Marlene Dietrich.
Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.
Each member were lead singers from different groups but later we were put together to make DBSK.
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music - all the solo singers were out of work.
