“The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.” — Emilia Pardo Bazán Copy Share Image
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the… — John Lone Copy Share Image
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. — Bernard Haitink Copy Share Image
Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at… — David Randolph Copy Share Image
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new… — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
“I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't… — Theodore Roosevelt 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'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them. — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when you speak about something like 'Indian classical music' and 'ragas,' and all of that's new to people, it… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play… — Anonymous Copy Share Image