“Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.” — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful. — Stephen Costello Copy Share Image
The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson Copy Share Image
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
People who know me as a hard-core rocker who positively despises musicals might be surprised to find that I am a huge… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18. — Lucy Griffiths Copy Share Image
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was… — Ralph Macchio Copy Share Image
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were… — Le1f Copy Share Image
My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then,… — Morfydd Clark Copy Share Image
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera. — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
