It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
Culture clash is terrific drama.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
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