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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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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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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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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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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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
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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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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 am a living soap opera.
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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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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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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 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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Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
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I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.
