Opera Quotes - page 4

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. (Graeme Murphy)

I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera.

Graham Parker

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

Jeffrey Tate

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

Jencarlos Canela

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

Jeremy Bulloch

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

Junichiro Koizumi

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

Kassie DePaiva

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

Lesley Garrett

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lesley Garrett

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly. (Lesley Garrett)

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.

Lesley Garrett

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Lindsey Buckingham

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

Maria Jeritza

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.

Nana Mouskouri

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Nik Wallenda

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Rudolf Bing

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Renee Fleming

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls. (Sophie Thompson)

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

Sarah Caldwell

When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.

Scott Stapp

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Trevor Nunn

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

William Devane

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