Opera Quotes
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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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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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.
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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.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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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.
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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.
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I am a living soap opera.
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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.
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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.
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
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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.
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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.
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
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I don't like rock opera with back beats.
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The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should “just say no” to opera, and that it’s always wise to diversify your investment portfolio.
