I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and… — Brigid Brannagh Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow 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
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
