Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place. — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
“Noche de Opera promises a magical, emotional and moving evening at San Diego Opera for opening night of Don Quixote 4-5-14” — Lidia S. Martinez Southwest Airlines Copy Share Image
I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. — C. L. R. James 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
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked… — Leslie Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things.… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to… — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked… — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new… — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the… — John Lone Copy Share Image
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience. — Goeran Gentele Copy Share Image
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden 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
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since we're at the Met, we've got some opera that we have to sing. So we're going to do a little hip… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!' — Alexa Vega Copy Share Image
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