I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays,… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a… — Jim Foglesong Copy Share Image
One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
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