Atlanta Quote by Brett Cooper

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

— Jane McDonald

Almost all my training was from opera singers.

— Susan Tedeschi

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a…

— John Barrowman

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a…

— John Barrowman

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it…

— Dolly Parton

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

— Jamie Blackley

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I worked at Dollywood when I was a kid. Then I worked at Opryland. I worked at a variety of theater things in Atlanta.…

— Diana DeGarmo

I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in…

— Netta Barzilai

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller