"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."
"I wanted to a long sentence just to say I love you and I hear you and I’m here. And thank you."
L.A. Union Station Social Media Pages
Begins July 19th
Begins July 19th