I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. — Nik Wallenda Copy Share Image
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter!” — Paisley Swan Stewart Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I like to spend several months at least in a particular opera house. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
“In the enormous whale-belly of steel and stone carved out to form the long-enduring old opera house, Rick Deckard found an echoing,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination,… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“I want a shower the size of the Sydney Opera House, because you know damn well I sing in the shower. And… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
“There, up in the sky, she noticed for the first time a gigantic mounded cloud, as large and elaborately moulded as a… — Rachel Ingalls Copy Share Image
One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The Opera House guidelines have from time to time been amended, whether it's for other sporting events or other causes. The guidelines… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we’re on a collision course, and we just don’t know it. Whether it’s by accident or by design, there’s not a… — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
“Later he would tell her that their story began at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, the night before he left for Paris… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large,… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Maria managed to avoid Oliver for most of St. Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t difficult-apparently he spent half of it sleeping off his… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“A delicate scent hung in the air as we strolled down the long boulevard toward the Opera House holding hands. Paris had… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“Mattheson was perhaps too clever for his own good; nonetheless the smart money was on this sophisticated and broadly educated polymath. Later… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“This book is really about the making of a great leader. In my own research and writings over many decades, I have… — Uday Mahurkar Copy Share Image
“Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
