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 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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Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
Philip Glass
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We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
Rachel Tucker
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I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.
Philip Glass