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On those sugar plantations, and on those tobacco fields, and on those rice plantations, and on those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists.
We don't hear so much about the Einstein who invited the African American opera singer, Marian Anderson, to stay in his home when she came to sing in Princeton because the best hotel there was segregated and wouldn't have her.
And then finally, Kelly's play of brilliants added to that really some play, I think, of the skyline of Hong Kong, or perhaps the chandelier in the opera house, or in the theater here, which is the decoration, the icing on the cake, something playful, something that is just an addition to the architectural environment, I would say.
Now it's also a beautiful opera, and we're moved by that opera.
We care what happens in that opera.
We're the ones writing this opera.
Back in 2000, I had the opportunity to go to South Africa to form a new opera company.
Whether storytellers realized it or not, they were channeling Meggendorfer's spirit when they moved opera to vaudville, radio news to radio theater, film to film in motion to film in sound, color, 3D, on VHS and on DVD.
My favorite experiment of this kind is the one that showed that the babies of women who watched a certain soap opera every day during pregnancy recognized the theme song of that show once they were born.
You can't fake that kind of interaction, and that's the exact opposite of what we ask people in opera to do.
In opera, we shrink those stairs so that our main characters can glide up and down effortlessly without ever breaking their voice.
You could never put an opera singer in Pee-Wee's Playhouse, (Sings in Pee-Wee's voice) or they wouldn't be able to do their job.
But you couldn't put Pee-Wee in an opera set.
We've been working on democratizing Lincoln Center for a public that doesn't usually have $300 to spend on an opera ticket.
MTT: This, of course, was the birth of opera, and its development put music on a radical new course.
They've had hives on the rooftop of their opera house for many years now, and that's what really got people started, thinking, "Wow, we can do this, and we should do this."
The synchrony of emotions that we experience when we hear an opera by Wagner, or a symphony by Brahms, or chamber music by Beethoven, compels us to remember our shared, common humanity, the deeply communal connected consciousness, the empathic consciousness that neuropsychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says is hard-wired into our brain's right hemisphere.
So I thought, forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks.
Once you choose the right station, whether it be jazz or opera, in our case whether it be movement or mood, we can put the dial there, and then we can use a second button to adjust the volume, to turn it up or turn it down.
But my dream was to become a Chinese opera singer.
An opera singer must start training young to learn acrobatics, so I tried everything I could to go to opera school.
And when I see the way they're intersecting in conditions like the three I've just described, I sometimes think it's like those moments in grand opera when the hero realizes he loves the heroine at the exact moment that she lies expiring on a divan.
That's a few samples of the theater, opera and films that I have done over the last 20 years.
And they put on an opera all night long.
When you leave the opera house, you'll find there's braille signage in the lifts.
My parents reinforced this notion that I could do anything, that no dream was impossible, and my dream was to be on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital."
Upon graduating, I moved back home, and my first acting gig was as an extra on a daytime soap opera.
And this is not the good kind of vibrato, like an opera singer has, this is my whole body just convulsing with fear.
Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning gray hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.
A little quick story here: 1888 opera house, the oldest in San Francisco, sits in Bayview–Hunters Point.
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