Opera Quotes
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One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
Joyce DiDonato
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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.
Alfredo Kraus
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People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Andy Grove
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Baz Luhrmann
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Irvin S. Cobb
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
Kevin Spacey
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A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
William Devane
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson
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Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
George Bernard Shaw
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I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
Ray Liotta
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas
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I am a living soap opera.
Virginia Graham
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
Stewart Copeland The Police
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
William Mapother
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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
Lincoln Kirstein
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Victor Appleton
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
Benjamin Britten
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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I don't like rock opera with back beats.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
Stewart Copeland The Police
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner