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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.