Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Jean de la Bruyere

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

Bryan Fuller

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Chester Bennington

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Harrison Birtwistle

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Hannah More

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Jerome Lawrence

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Lauren Worsham

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

W. H. Auden

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Placido Domingo

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Sarah Caldwell

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Shane Koyczan

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

Andrea Bocelli

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

[Alvy is asked to try cocaine] Alvy Singer: I don't want to put a wad of white powder in my nose. There's the nasal membrane... Annie Hall: You never want to try anything new, Alvy. Alvy Singer: How can you say that? Whose idea was it? I said that yo...

Annie Hall

Allison: I'm in the midst of doing my thesis. Alvy Singer: On what? Allison: Political commitment in twentieth century literature. Alvy Singer: You, you, you're like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis Univ...

Annie Hall

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising ...

The Birth of Tragedy

I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the opera.

How to Breathe Underwater

There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.

The Phantom of the Opera