Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
In the Broadway world, I've always wanted to play Valjean in 'Les Mis', since I've already played Gavroche. I'd also like to… — Gaten Matarazzo Copy Share Image
I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Carmen is an iconic character. I think everyone in the world knows of the existence of the story and the opera, even… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to go into musical theater necessarily. It was never planned. I just kind of fell into… — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Bartolo used to do his cardio work during the game. They had the Stairmaster and there were two TVs. One with the… — Alex Cora Copy Share Image
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image