Opera Quotes - Page 11

• There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

  Christoph Waltz

  Soccer, Hockey, Media

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

  Christoph Waltz

  Dying, Economics, Difficult

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

  Susan Stroman

  Thinking, House, Phantoms

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

  Peter Stormare

  Voice, People, Boring

  Source: collider.com

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• If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful music. For me, there's nothing like listening to a beautiful opera sometimes - on a record or seeing it live - just to be sleepy and let those beautiful voices take me somewhere I've never been before.

  Peter Stormare

  Beautiful, Voice, Color

  Source: collider.com

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• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Writing, Rocks, Old And New

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• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Hands, Knees, Sometimes

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• My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

  Tony Hale

  Appreciation, Art, Dad

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

  Famke Janssen

  Acting, Roles, Soap

  "Famke Janssen and Liam Neeson have the family holiday from hell in Taken 2". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. October 05, 2012.

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• I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.

  Barbara Padilla

  Nice, Character, Self

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. August 01, 2015.

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• I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

  Kate Winslet

  Tabloids, Stuff, Soap

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jobs, Zoos, Teaching

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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

  Bruce Beresford

  Drama, Play, Singing

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• When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

  Daniel Handler

  Dark, Ideas, Plot

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Parent

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Thinking, Harder, Access

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Stories, Made, Changed

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

  Ibn Warraq

  Culture, Should, Worthy

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Eye, Emotional

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Wow

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• It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Technology, Rocks, Records

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  Zola Jesus

  Different, Influence

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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

  Zola Jesus

  Jesus, Years, Zola

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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  Teddy Sears

  New York, Moving, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Play, People, Childhood

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