I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer.… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. — Melinda Clarke Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas?… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to… — Ludovic Halévy Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
