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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.
I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.
Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.
As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.
I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
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.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.
Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.