In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
I said we should really use an unknown in King David because any actor that you use for such a famous figure, you're going to get a laugh.
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
We had a lot of trouble with that third role because I said to the studio that it was important to get someone who was, on the one hand, a wonderful actor, and, on the other hand was not well known, because if you had simply hired an actor like one of the Baldwin brothers or someone like that the audience would have known that they were too big a star to be killed off and not come back.
Well, I storyboard the films from every shot and from every angle. I specify to the cameraman where the camera should be and what lens he should use and then I work out all the moves for the actors. Of course this can change, but I would have to say that 95 of the time the film is done exactly the way I have storyboarded it.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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