What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. — Howard Jacobson 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
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? — Vladimir Horowitz 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
“Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...” — 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
“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I like to spend several months at least in a particular opera house. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Life is like the opera house audience here even if you are the artist's fans are also critics of the show is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
“Standing in the back of the dark opera house and gazing at the huge stage before them, gay with gold-scrolled scenery and… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“ Percy , I could say, I think you are the most beautiful creature on God's green earth and I would very… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“A faith-healer may or may not start out with fraud in mind. But to his amazement, his patients actually seem to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“eight thousand Republicans crammed into Crosby’s Opera House for a veritable coronation of Ulysses S. Grant. To play on wartime memories, General… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled whatever desires one… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you are all set for an enjoyable weekend then simply head towards the magnificent Her Majesty’s Theatre! The popular London Westend… — Alina Popescu 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
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
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
