Sir David Pountney
“I think you can’t interpret something unless you’re prepared to get your hands dirty. Many people think that’s a kind of effrontery but if you don’t have it, you know you can’t be an interpreter.”
Cerise Lim Jacobs
“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. “
Peter Katona
“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.”
Carolyn Choa
“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. “
Lionel Meunier
“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. “
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