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
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along… — Raymond Bonner 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
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
The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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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
“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
“JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a… — Erich Hoyt 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
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier 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
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
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
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
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
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
“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
“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
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
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