If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and… — Method Man Copy Share Image
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera. — Jencarlos Canela Copy Share Image
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an opera singer, but the discipline needed to maintain a healthy voice and that was not for me. — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth. — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest… — Andrea Bocelli 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
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
The FC Hollywood nickname came about because, when schools were out, we would have 10,000 fans turning up just to watch us… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years,… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.” — Cheryl Cory Copy Share Image
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.' — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk. — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
