"I like that people are being respectful and trying to be good social advocates. But it's kind of sad to me that this movement has, in a way, stifled art."
"It's just been a passion for all of us and it was certainly a passion of Rick's. I'm only sorry he's not here to see it come to life. And everybody can now enjoy it. Not only enjoy it, but learn from it. It's all there and these films were meant to be seen."
A great way to become familiar with a composer's work is to perform it. Zachary Gordin, the General Director of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, is intimately familiar with the work of composer Jake Heggie. Arguably Heggie's best-known work...
"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."
"The book is full of a sense of time and a sense of place. I think she talks about the feeling that time is shrinking and expanding. I think so much of it relates to how we feel about time and space and our bodies and sensation and memory."
"I do believe that there is still beauty and there is beauty we don't even know about yet from this pandemic...it's only just creeping out of the ground right now."
"I think people can see in art a reflection of themselves and of the moment that we live in. I think people will see in Onegin the difficulties we've been through in the last sixteen months."
"I think what Dionysus and Dracula both try and show through being the stranger and the outsider is that we are all the same basically. "
"The moment you hear this music it's gone. Nobody else will ever hear it again in this version. That's what's really special."
"Even Verdi when he was writing his Shakespeare operas he didn't dare actually take on Shakespeare's text. Britten is one of the few people in history that actually set Shakespeare's text and all but one sentence is the original Shakespeare."