Opera Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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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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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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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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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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I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
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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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I am a living soap opera.
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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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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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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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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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They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
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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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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 don't like rock opera with back beats.
