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For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.
I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.
The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?
I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.
My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.