Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever… — Lisa O'Hare Copy Share Image
Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, called 'White Raven.'… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and… — Ally Carter 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
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
“Who are you? Where do you fit into poetry and myth? Do you know who I think you are, Ramsay? I think… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. — Rufus Wainwright 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
“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.” — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there. — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom Copy Share Image
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her. — Eugenio Derbez Copy Share Image
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. — Jencarlos Canela Copy Share Image
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera… — Camille Paglia 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
