Opera Quotes
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
Dan Stevens
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
Philip Glass
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
Camille Paglia
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
Victor Hugo
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
Wallace Shawn
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd
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I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.
Catherine Deneuve
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
Emil Ludwig