Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.' — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk. — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth. — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China.… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.” — Cheryl Cory Copy Share Image
...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at… — David Randolph Copy Share Image
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records. — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
