“It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. — Rakim Copy Share Image
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary.… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on… — Amanda Eliasch Copy Share Image
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too,… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer.… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux 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
When Placido suggested to me that I should sing 'Fedora,' I said that I didn't think so. I thought it was too… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera. — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that. — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances. — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films. — Alexandre Desplat 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
My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career. — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
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