The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed,… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer. — Kristine Opolais 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
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you… — Susanna Phillips 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
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and… — Javier Bardem 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
That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be… — Lea Salonga 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
I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given… — John Green Copy Share Image
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new… — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“I like Italian High Opera, German Comic Opera and the Grand Ole’ Opry – in no particular order.” — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli Copy Share Image
