“It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing. — Florence Foster Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes… — Tom Clancy 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
I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and… — Method Man Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. — Stefan Kanfer 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
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience. — Goeran Gentele Copy Share Image
I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world,… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas… — Robert Ashley Copy Share Image
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
