Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination,… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“I want a shower the size of the Sydney Opera House, because you know damn well I sing in the shower. And… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In the enormous whale-belly of steel and stone carved out to form the long-enduring old opera house, Rick Deckard found an echoing,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“If you are all set for an enjoyable weekend then simply head towards the magnificent Her Majesty’s Theatre! The popular London Westend… — Alina Popescu Copy Share Image
“JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a… — Erich Hoyt Copy Share Image
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“eight thousand Republicans crammed into Crosby’s Opera House for a veritable coronation of Ulysses S. Grant. To play on wartime memories, General… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled whatever desires one… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is like the opera house audience here even if you are the artist's fans are also critics of the show is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
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“ Percy , I could say, I think you are the most beautiful creature on God's green earth and I would very… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image