Quotes about Opera

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Votes: 4

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. Votes: 4

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil. Votes: 3

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost. Votes: 3

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute. Votes: 3

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me. Votes: 3

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming. Votes: 3

Opera is given so little attention in the national press. Votes: 3

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world. Votes: 3

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. Votes: 3

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. Votes: 3

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera. Votes: 3

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. Votes: 3

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work. Votes: 3

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction? Votes: 3

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk. Votes: 3

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby. Votes: 3

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. Votes: 3

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. Votes: 3

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. Votes: 3

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Votes: 3

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. Votes: 3

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. Votes: 3

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. Votes: 3

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. Votes: 3

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. Votes: 3

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.' Votes: 3

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone. Votes: 3

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. Votes: 3

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) Votes: 3

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. Votes: 3

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. Votes: 3

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. Votes: 3

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. Votes: 3

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate. Votes: 3

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. Votes: 3

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. Votes: 3

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy. Votes: 3

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. Votes: 3

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? Votes: 3

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good. Votes: 3

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. Votes: 3

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. Votes: 3

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations. Votes: 3

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. Votes: 3

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health. Votes: 3

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Votes: 3

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths. Votes: 3

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. Votes: 3

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit. Votes: 3

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.' Votes: 3

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. Votes: 3

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week. Votes: 3

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Votes: 3

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic. Votes: 3

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means. Votes: 3

'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. Votes: 3

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. Votes: 3

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years. Votes: 3

Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears. Votes: 3

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known. Votes: 3

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times. Votes: 3

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. Votes: 3

Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house. Votes: 3

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion. Votes: 3

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that. Votes: 3

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.' Votes: 3

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it. Votes: 3

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing. Votes: 3

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there. Votes: 3

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life. Votes: 3

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera. Votes: 3

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. Votes: 3

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Votes: 3

In opera, there is always too much singing. Votes: 2

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. Votes: 2

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. Votes: 2

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself Votes: 2

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. Votes: 2

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. Votes: 2

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera. Votes: 2

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. Votes: 2

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. Votes: 2

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. Votes: 2

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't Votes: 2

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. Votes: 2

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. Votes: 2

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 . Votes: 2

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. Votes: 2

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera. Votes: 2

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. Votes: 2

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. Votes: 2

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday. Votes: 2

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. Votes: 2

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera. Votes: 1

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. Votes: 1

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Votes: 1

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. Votes: 1

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. Votes: 1

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. Votes: 1

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy. Votes: 1

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. Votes: 1

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. Votes: 1

I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics. Votes: 1

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer. Votes: 1

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. Votes: 1

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Votes: 1

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. Votes: 1

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime. Votes: 1

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. Votes: 1

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Votes: 1

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.' Votes: 1

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. Votes: 1

The opera ghost really existed Votes: 0

I am a living soap opera. Votes: 0

Bed is the poor man's opera Votes: 0

I would love to sing opera. Votes: 0

Life is an X-rated soap opera. Votes: 0

I became a set designer for opera. Votes: 0

Lots of opera singers are just boring. Votes: 0

I don't like rock opera with back beats. Votes: 0

I really wanted to be an opera soprano. Votes: 0

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. Votes: 0

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera. Votes: 0

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it? Votes: 0

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. Votes: 0

The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings. Votes: 0

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes. Votes: 0

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. Votes: 0

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera. Votes: 0

Music and opera are a big part of my life. Votes: 0

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something. Votes: 0

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. Votes: 0

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. Votes: 0

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music. Votes: 0

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. Votes: 0

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage. Votes: 0

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera. Votes: 0

I want to get out of the major opera houses. Votes: 0

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives. Votes: 0

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing. Votes: 0

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. Votes: 0

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star. Votes: 0

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'. Votes: 0

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera. Votes: 0

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. Votes: 0

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. Votes: 0

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. Votes: 0

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera. Votes: 0

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. Votes: 0

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. Votes: 0

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. Votes: 0

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings. Votes: 0

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. Votes: 0

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home. Votes: 0

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music. Votes: 0

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Votes: 0

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music. Votes: 0

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. Votes: 0

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. Votes: 0

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance. Votes: 0

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera. Votes: 0

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. Votes: 0

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. Votes: 0

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going. Votes: 0

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. Votes: 0

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] Votes: 0

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me. Votes: 0

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. Votes: 0

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera. Votes: 0

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. Votes: 0

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy. Votes: 0

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music Votes: 0

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! Votes: 0

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. Votes: 0

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. Votes: 0

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. Votes: 0

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight. Votes: 0

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. Votes: 0

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. Votes: 0

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. Votes: 0

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. Votes: 0

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. Votes: 0

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. Votes: 0

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. Votes: 0

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music. Votes: 0

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. Votes: 0

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. Votes: 0

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. Votes: 0

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. Votes: 0

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. Votes: 0

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera. Votes: 0

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. Votes: 0

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration. Votes: 0

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. Votes: 0

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera. Votes: 0

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself. Votes: 0

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Votes: 0

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. Votes: 0

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. Votes: 0

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. Votes: 0

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? Votes: 0

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not. Votes: 0

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity. Votes: 0

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. Votes: 0

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. Votes: 0

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them. Votes: 0

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances. Votes: 0

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. Votes: 0

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. Votes: 0

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. Votes: 0

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. Votes: 0

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. Votes: 0

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. Votes: 0

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. Votes: 0

Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. Votes: 0

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. Votes: 0

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance. Votes: 0

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better. Votes: 0

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera. Votes: 0

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. Votes: 0

Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. Votes: 0

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. Votes: 0

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape. Votes: 0

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note Votes: 0

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better. Votes: 0

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera. Votes: 0

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera. Votes: 0

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera. Votes: 0

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls. Votes: 0

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. Votes: 0

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer. Votes: 0

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! Votes: 0

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. Votes: 0

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." Votes: 0

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it." Votes: 0

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. Votes: 0

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. Votes: 0

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Votes: 0

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. Votes: 0

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. Votes: 0

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. Votes: 0

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera! Votes: 0

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. Votes: 0

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man. Votes: 0

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. Votes: 0

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. Votes: 0

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. Votes: 0

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets. Votes: 0

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is. Votes: 0

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. Votes: 0

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. Votes: 0

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. Votes: 0

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. Votes: 0

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. Votes: 0

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. Votes: 0

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. Votes: 0

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! Votes: 0

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it. Votes: 0

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. Votes: 0

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18. Votes: 0

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it. Votes: 0

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place. Votes: 0

Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite. Votes: 0

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. Votes: 0

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. Votes: 0

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.' Votes: 0

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. Votes: 0

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Votes: 0

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. Votes: 0

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. Votes: 0

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. Votes: 0

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. Votes: 0

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. Votes: 0

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. Votes: 0

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. Votes: 0

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. Votes: 0

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites. Votes: 0

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. Votes: 0

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits. Votes: 0

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. Votes: 0

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't. Votes: 0

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. Votes: 0

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Votes: 0

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity. Votes: 0

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. Votes: 0

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply. Votes: 0

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. Votes: 0

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. Votes: 0

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited. Votes: 0

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? Votes: 0

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. Votes: 0

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. Votes: 0

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. Votes: 0

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies. Votes: 0

I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn! Votes: 0

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. Votes: 0

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers. Votes: 0

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. Votes: 0

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. Votes: 0

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? Votes: 0

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. Votes: 0

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. Votes: 0

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something. Votes: 0

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different. Votes: 0

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. Votes: 0

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. Votes: 0

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real! Votes: 0

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. Votes: 0

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. Votes: 0

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble. Votes: 0

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star. Votes: 0

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). Votes: 0

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief. Votes: 0

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief. Votes: 0

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses. Votes: 0

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. Votes: 0

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity Votes: 0

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. Votes: 0

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. Votes: 0

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. Votes: 0

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. Votes: 0

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. Votes: 0

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera. Votes: 0

How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren) Votes: 0

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing. Votes: 0

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. Votes: 0

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. Votes: 0

I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street. Votes: 0

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. Votes: 0

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. Votes: 0

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! Votes: 0

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer. Votes: 0

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. Votes: 0

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window. Votes: 0

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. Votes: 0

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. Votes: 0

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. Votes: 0

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution. Votes: 0

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. Votes: 0

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized. Votes: 0

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. Votes: 0

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. Votes: 0

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Votes: 0

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game. Votes: 0

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful. Votes: 0

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. Votes: 0

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit. Votes: 0

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws. Votes: 0

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. Votes: 0

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places. Votes: 0

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul. Votes: 0

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies. Votes: 0

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again. Votes: 0

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. Votes: 0

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. Votes: 0

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public. Votes: 0

You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets. Votes: 0

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! Votes: 0

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society. Votes: 0

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. Votes: 0

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. Votes: 0

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world. Votes: 0

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians. Votes: 0

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. Votes: 0

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.' Votes: 0

You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets. Votes: 0

I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices. Votes: 0

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears. Votes: 0

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that. Votes: 0

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. Votes: 0

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous Votes: 0

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage. Votes: 0

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements. Votes: 0

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well. Votes: 0

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition. Votes: 0

That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media. Votes: 0

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here. Votes: 0

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving. Votes: 0

I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady. Votes: 0

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically. Votes: 0

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. Votes: 0

Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest. Votes: 0

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude. Votes: 0

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music. Votes: 0

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. Votes: 0

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. Votes: 0

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it. Votes: 0

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me. Votes: 0

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. Votes: 0

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed. Votes: 0

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show. Votes: 0

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like Votes: 0

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. Votes: 0

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress. Votes: 0

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back. Votes: 0

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group. Votes: 0

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. Votes: 0

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. Votes: 0

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music. Votes: 0

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting. Votes: 0

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in. Votes: 0

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. Votes: 0

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.' Votes: 0

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff. Votes: 0

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. Votes: 0

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera. Votes: 0

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. Votes: 0

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it. Votes: 0

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera. Votes: 0

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. Votes: 0

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome. Votes: 0

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. Votes: 0

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate Votes: 0

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Votes: 0

Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics. Votes: 0

Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. Votes: 0

Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [...] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera. Votes: 0

Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error. Votes: 0

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do. Votes: 0

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold. Votes: 0

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world. Votes: 0

My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts. Votes: 0

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life. Votes: 0

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them. Votes: 0

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. Votes: 0

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' Votes: 0

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. Votes: 0

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me. Votes: 0

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully. Votes: 0

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again. Votes: 0

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it. Votes: 0

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer." Votes: 0

I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera. Votes: 0

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. Votes: 0

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer. Votes: 0

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything. Votes: 0

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. Votes: 0

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera. Votes: 0

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool. Votes: 0

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other. Votes: 0

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture. Votes: 0

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place. Votes: 0

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it. Votes: 0

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art. Votes: 0

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no! Votes: 0

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything. Votes: 0

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. Votes: 0

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true. Votes: 0

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. Votes: 0

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child. Votes: 0

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system. Votes: 0

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree. Votes: 0

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. Votes: 0

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera? Votes: 0

I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche. Votes: 0

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion. Votes: 0