Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer. — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time.… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and… — Carl Gardner Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the… — Barbara Padilla Copy Share Image
We had that horrible experience with 'Behind the Music' where they just made it all salacious. That's not about the band -… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor. — Hildur Gudnadottir Copy Share Image
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. — Kassie DePaiva Copy Share Image
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to… — Ludovic Halévy Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson 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
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity. — Alfredo Kraus Copy Share Image
