Quotes and Sayings About Opera
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Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
-- Action Bronson -
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
-- Alan Hirsch -
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
-- Alvar Aalto -
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
-- Anthony Davis -
I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.
-- Ashley Benson -
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
-- Barry Bostwick -
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
-- Benjamin Britten -
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
-- Bernard Haitink -
You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
-- Bette Midler -
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
-- Beverly Sills -
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
-- Bobby Short -
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.
-- Brian Swimme -
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
-- C. L. R. James -
It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good
-- Cab Calloway -
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.
-- Catherine Mary Stewart -
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
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 -
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
-- Chester Bennington -
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.
-- Chris Cornell
