Well here we are again, back on the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I’m your host, Michael Mayes, and I am back this week with another DMMO favorite, Director William Farlow. Bill has had a long and illustrious career all across this fruited plain, and has a wealth of insight and stories to share with us this week, delivered with his characteristic dry and super sharp wit…
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Now, sit back, relax, and enjoy Bill Farlow, and let me tell you, if you know Bill, you’re gonna love it…
You’re gonna love it
I love Mozart
Nozze di Figaro
Casting for the sound of the voice?
Mozart does not need your help
Chipping away what is not Marcello
Encouraging words and excellent advice from Dr. Robert Larsen
Take canvas and start hurling paint at it
Frustrated artists make terrible art
Directing? How Hard can it BE??
Learning Opera in the Trenches
The swiss and organization
walking down the the streets of El Paso with an arm full of LPs and Scores
Opera is inside me
if you’ve done this as long as I have, you’re retired or dead.
Imitation, flattery and all that
The stroke of genius myth
Everything is imitation
Just stop and learn the basics
In America we want the meteoric rise
Be the first you
You never know you are going to have a 40 year career until look back and realize that is just what happened
it takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place
Why would you want to be a big fish in a small pond
Listen to the music and remind yourself why you’re there
When the surreality kicks in
I started levitating
The White Tornado
The Junkyard Dog of Opera
“The only thing more thing more inept than Mr. Farlow’s Choreagraphy, was his stage direction
The excitement of the early part of a career
Pedagogy is an enormous responsibility
THe first director of the post Larsen era
Animals on stage
we need more live chickens in opera
I said, “I will kill you”
The Camel had a cover
opera either kills you or cures you
getting back to the vibrancy of your adolescence
i just laid down on the floor
it looked like a Zorro convention
he does know that I am not Beverly Sills, right?
the operatic intervention
Would you do it again?
Opera is an all-consuming phenomenon
