I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building… — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. — Bruce Beresford 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
Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was… — Ralph Macchio Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me. — Charles Townshend Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
I listened to the opera the other day, and it gave me a surprising insight into the reason why someone would invent… — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline. — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man. — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
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… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
