The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.
'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.
'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976.
Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
I became a set designer for opera.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.