My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. — James Gray Copy Share Image
Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act. — Jane McDonald Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on… — Amanda Eliasch Copy Share Image
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a… — Jim Foglesong Copy Share Image
It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go… — Darren Lynn Bousman Copy Share Image
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
Any time I've performed on one of the major stages, whether it be Covent Garden or the Paris Opera or the Bolshoi… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
