Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. — Melinda Clarke Copy Share Image
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience. — Goeran Gentele Copy Share Image
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to… — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.” — Emilia Pardo Bazán Copy Share Image
“I like opera just fine; it’s people I wanted to get away from.” As” — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
