Opera Quotes
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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.
Clive Rowe -
I don't like rock opera with back beats.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.
Darren Lynn Bousman -
I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
Andrea Davis Pinkney -
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner -
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
Ben Aaronovitch -
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.
Sarah Caldwell -
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.
David Hudgins
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In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
Eric Taylor -
It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
Jose Carreras -
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson -
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
Eugenio Derbez
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This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
Edward Gardner -
You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
Sarah Caldwell -
We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
Gaston Leroux -
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
Erica Brown -
Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
Garth Greenwell
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NOBODY LIKES a riot except looters and journalists. The Metropolitan Police, being the go-ahead and dynamic modern police service that it is, has any number of contingency plans for dealing with civil disturbance. From farmers with truckloads of manure to suburban anarchists on a weekend break and Saturday jihadists. What I suspect they didn’t have plans for was just over two thousand enraged opera lovers pouring out of the Royal Opera House and going on a mad rampage through Covent Garden.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
George Richard Marek -
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
Stefano Langone -
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.
Ben Aaronovitch