Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. — Karen Black 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
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 moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was… — Warren Littlefield 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
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
