Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
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We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender… You cannot make an opera audience believe… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I was trying to get into the film industry in Mexico and nobody was letting me in. I was looked down upon… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
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If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera'… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and… — Dylan Bruce Copy Share Image
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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