Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at… — David Randolph Copy Share Image
...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
'iCarly' gives me the luxury of addressing the fans directly. It was a sort of loving nudge to the fans saying, 'We're… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera,… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what… — Goldie Copy Share Image
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. — Gioachino Rossini Copy Share Image
People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin' scandal and a good soap opera. — Lana Copy Share Image
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]” — Vincent B. Chip LoCoco Copy Share Image
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the… — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good. — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
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