top of page
Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

Standard 
 Customized
"In opera, there is always too much singing."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen."

Hope

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"In opera, there is always too much singing."

Opera

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."

People

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."

Art

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."

Love

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."

Art

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"

Music

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

Art

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Music is the silence between the notes."

Music

Quote_1.png
Claude Debussy
"Extreme complication is contrary to art."

Art

bottom of page