How Did The Co-Founder And Drummer Of The Police Move From Rock To Opera?

Stewart Copeland: “My father raised me to be a big band white jazz drummer. He raised me to be Buddy Rich; he had me in lessons from the start, which cured me of jazz, but in fact, the Stravinsky and the Debussy stuck. … That music of the big orchestra doing dramatic things, very powerful, very rhythmic [things], really stuck.”