“I don’t consider myself to be just a librettist in the sense of most librettist working in contemporary opera today. I consider myself to be a creator of new work because I create everything: the story, and then I write the lyrics, and then I have an idea of what the music should sound like because it’s my original story. “
“It’s a huge weight of responsibility if one wants to encourage the right people to do this kind of job. Of course, you need a wonderful voice, or a voice that is resilient, and has stamina, but you need so much more. The voice is only a small part of this.”
“His (Kawabata) works have been called works of emptiness, and himself, a master of the unsaid thing. I feel that the fact that so much of what he communicates is not exactly in the words, in the language, that this gives us a chance to explore the kind of underlying meanings of it in music and dance. “
“I tried to build a group around singers that were able to sing any solo requested in the music we perform, but that equally loves, if not more, to sing in ensemble. “
“My whole career is built on finding the light in the darkness and presenting them right next to each other, sometimes in the same chord, sometimes in the same phrase. So yeah, things are dark undeniably but i think that makes the light brighter.”
“I love the idea of this relationship (Lola and The Fairy Prince) being central to this opera that sort of swims in this universe of sort of like erotic, and choral cooing. I wanted the end for the Fairy Prince to really kind of undergo this gender transformation and make it more of like a journey of self-discovery.”
“I love the idea of this relationship (Lola and The Fairy Prince) being central to this opera that sort of swims in this universe of sort of like erotic, and choral cooing. I wanted the end for the Fairy Prince to really kind of undergo this gender transformation and make it more of like a journey of self-discovery.”
“I use what I know of one field in the other field, and vice versa. I try to use what I know in every field in any way, that’s who I am. And I make the best I can with what I’ve experienced. But for me, it’s certainly not two separated worlds in my mind. It’s constantly traveling from one to the other. “
“I would say it’s a sort of a ping pong game where you play both sides, and I wouldn’t put it in boxes. It’s good singing and deep singing, it’s just the honesty, the artistry, and the purity that your approach shows, it shouldn’t be a contradiction. I think it fits very well together. “
“All the art forms that has to do with singing have a message. There’s always a message that you have to give to the audience. “
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