"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."
""In the martini of this show, the gin is Euripides and a rinse of vermouth is Stoker. It's like a Victorian staging of the Bacchae with a little swirl of the Dracula."
""In the martini of this show, the gin is Euripides and a rinse of vermouth is Stoker. It's like a Victorian staging of the Bacchae with a little swirl of the Dracula."
Hollywood Bowl
July 30th
July 30th
"I am glad to see increasing attention being paid to inclusiveness in the classical music scene and elsewhere."