If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever… — Lisa O'Hare Copy Share Image
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a… — Jim Foglesong Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
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