As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain 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
If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one… — Ezra Miller 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
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I… — John McCormack Copy Share Image
I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching… — Julie Gonzalo Copy Share Image
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I… — Anna Netrebko 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
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
