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Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite.

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

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

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

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

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

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