Opera Quotes
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Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.
Susanna Phillips
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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli
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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
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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.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.
Stana Katic
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
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I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
Erica Brown
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
Floor Jansen
Nightwish
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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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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?
Laurie Anderson
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I'd like to direct more operas.
Simon Callow
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
Stephen Paulus
