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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.
I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
'All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin' scandal and a good soap opera.
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.
Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!
I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!
I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.
As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.
I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.