Perhaps The Most Difficult Thing Is Shooting

Quite A Few Operas Are Still Being Commissioned Around The World, Although Nothing Apart From Audience Popularity Can Ensure More Than A Few Performances.

Perhaps The Most Difficult Thing Is Shooting Scenes Set 6,000 Feet Up In The Mountains Of Mexico.

When The Music And The Characters Are Flawlessly Synchronized, The Opera Develops An Emotional Force That Movies And Plays Cannot Match.

I Thought, This Is Fabulous. It Sent Shivers Up My Spine. I Thought, What Kinds Of People Are These That Would Produce This Kind Of Music In A Camp? All The Prison Camp Stories I've Seen, And Heard Of, Were About The Heroism Of Men. As I Researched This And Heard The Music, I Realized That Women Were Heroic Too, On Just As Grand A Scale. And Their Treatment Was Just As Appalling.

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.