When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Since we're at the Met, we've got some opera that we have to sing. So we're going to do a little hip… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when you speak about something like 'Indian classical music' and 'ragas,' and all of that's new to people, it… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things.… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Each case - each story - is interesting in itself. I think that's what 'Law & Order: U.K.' maintains and that's why… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. — Stefano Langone Copy Share Image
