I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I was trying to get into the film industry in Mexico and nobody was letting me in. I was looked down upon… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make… — Charles Nelson Reilly Copy Share Image
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked… — Michael Mayer Copy Share Image
The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice.… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go… — Darren Lynn Bousman Copy Share Image
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Jugosloveni veoma vole balet i, još više, ореru. Operski pevači i pevačice uživaju veliki ugled i poštovanje u narodu. Mladi Jugosloveni i… — Dejan Novačić Copy Share Image
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk… — Charles Nelson Reilly Copy Share Image
People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme...They either love it or they hate it. If they love… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
