“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to… — Ludovic Halévy Copy Share Image
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. — Kassie DePaiva Copy Share Image
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano… — Ottorino Respighi Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor. — Hildur Gudnadottir Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity. — Alfredo Kraus Copy Share Image
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… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson 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
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. — Karen Black Copy Share Image
When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
