“Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter!” — Paisley Swan Stewart Copy Share Image
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. — Nik Wallenda Copy Share Image
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. — Bernard Haitink Copy Share Image
“Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
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… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“There, up in the sky, she noticed for the first time a gigantic mounded cloud, as large and elaborately moulded as a… — Rachel Ingalls Copy Share Image
People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
The Opera House guidelines have from time to time been amended, whether it's for other sporting events or other causes. The guidelines… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
“A delicate scent hung in the air as we strolled down the long boulevard toward the Opera House holding hands. Paris had… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“Mattheson was perhaps too clever for his own good; nonetheless the smart money was on this sophisticated and broadly educated polymath. Later… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“This book is really about the making of a great leader. In my own research and writings over many decades, I have… — Uday Mahurkar Copy Share Image
“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we’re on a collision course, and we just don’t know it. Whether it’s by accident or by design, there’s not a… — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large,… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Later he would tell her that their story began at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, the night before he left for Paris… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
“Maria managed to avoid Oliver for most of St. Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t difficult-apparently he spent half of it sleeping off his… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I like to spend several months at least in a particular opera house. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
