Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Karl Malone

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.

Robert Wilson

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.

Rory Bremner

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

William Bolcom

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

Andrea Bocelli

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other!

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

HER BARBED-WIRE SMILE LIFTED YOU TO HEAVEN BUT I HAVE TO ASK DID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE

This Opera of Peace

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

I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.

Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and...

Karen DeCrow

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

Owen Benjamin

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Maurice Sendak

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.

Susanna Phillips

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.

Maria Callas

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a...

Andrea Bocelli