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Opera Quotes by Carlisle Floyd
- It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
- It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to…
- Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
- The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues…
- If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
- When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you…
- Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some… — Bruce Beresford
- The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli
- To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. — Andrea Bocelli
- I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli
- I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies. — Andrea Bocelli