I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
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.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send ...
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