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- A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would…
- What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?
- I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
- Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.
- Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to…
- My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax…
- Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.
- My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason…
- There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. - cool whatsapp status
- I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.
- Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and…
- We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.
- Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
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