Opera Quotes
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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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!
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I love to conduct opera.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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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.
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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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.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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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.
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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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.
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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.
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The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of "Why is this person bursting out into song?" because the whole thing is sung.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
