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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
- Gioachino Rossini
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I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
- Ledisi
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It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
- Joan Fontaine
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I couldn't stand the politics in opera.
- Rhiannon Giddens
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The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera Ballet School, and we flew to Japan.
- Sylvie Guillem
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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
- Anthony Davis
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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
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Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
- Sarah Caldwell
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If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
- Sarah Caldwell
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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
- Neville Marriner
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My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
- Amy Bloom
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
- Donna Leon
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I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
- Donna Leon
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At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.
- Sylvie Guillem
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Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.
- Jihae
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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
- Peter Mullan
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Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
- Luciano Pavarotti
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
- Luciano Pavarotti
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I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.
- Caroline Polachek
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After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
- Lauren Worsham
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Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.
- Lauren Worsham
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I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
- Lauren Worsham
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I'm by no means an opera buff.
- Kenneth Branagh
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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
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Music and opera are a big part of my life.
- Ailyn Perez
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I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.
- Robert Lepage
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When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.
- Robert Lepage
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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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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
- Harrison Birtwistle
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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
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
- Stephen Paulus
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Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.
- Raymond Bonner
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Opera is really fun.
- Renee Fleming
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We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
- Rachel Tucker
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It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
- Doug Davidson
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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
- Tony Harrison
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I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.
- Steven Weinberg
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I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.
- Dave Gibbons
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
- Jeffrey Tate
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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
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I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
- Denny Laine
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I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
- Juan Diego Florez
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I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.
- Juan Diego Florez
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I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
- Meryl Streep
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I think one of the great strengths of 'The Flash' is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these raging conflicts, like what we keep giving everybody on 'Arrow.' That show is more of a soap opera, and I don't say that derogatorily.
- Andrew Kreisberg
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
- Israel Horovitz
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
- Marcus du Sautoy
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I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
- Jencarlos Canela
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My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
- Lindy Booth
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The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
- Anna Netrebko
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Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
- Anna Netrebko
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
- Cam Gigandet
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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
- Maximilian Schell
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
- Zola Jesus
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
- John Philip Sousa
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I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.
- Jaime Camil
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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
- Kelli O'Hara
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I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
- Melinda Clarke
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Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
- Richard Harding Davis
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When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
- Kathleen Battle
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I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.
- Kathleen Battle
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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!
- Dave Brubeck
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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
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My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
- Bar Paly
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I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
- Kevin Kline
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Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.
- Jeremy Bulloch
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I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
- Eli Broad
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I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school and after one year I got a part in a soap opera in Stockholm. It's called 'Rederiet.'
- Sofia Helin
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My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
- Tika Sumpter
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'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
- Timothy Dalton
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I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was in a Latin soap opera - where are you gonna go with a nice guy in a Latin soap opera?
- Ralph Macchio
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'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.
- Simon Rattle
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My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.
- Hildur Gudnadottir
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I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn't make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I'm not going to make a career out of it.
- Ian Gillan
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
- Mallory Jansen
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I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'
- Sophie Thompson
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I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
- David Sanborn
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
- Steven Berkoff
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I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
- John Patrick Shanley
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
- Josh Groban
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
- Israel Zangwill
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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
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Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
- Luciano Pavarotti
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Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'
- Dennis DeYoung
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If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.
- Annalee Newitz
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I wanted to be an opera singer since I was a very little girl.
- Nico
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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.
- Jose Carreras
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
- Elvis Costello
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Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
- Chris Lowe
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Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
- Chris Lowe
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
- Rafael Nadal
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Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
- Diane Paulus
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I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
- Tom Wopat
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Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.
- Greta Gerwig
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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
- Wim Wenders
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Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
- Shia LaBeouf
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Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
- Placido Domingo
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My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
- Eugenio Derbez
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