To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I… — David Canary Copy Share Image
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's… — Regina King Copy Share Image
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
