Opera Quotes
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I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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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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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
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I'd like to direct more operas.
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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
