Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. — Melvyn Bragg 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
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I was one of the lucky people who found what I loved at a really young age. When I was 16, I… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed,… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When Placido suggested to me that I should sing 'Fedora,' I said that I didn't think so. I thought it was too… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
