Opera Quotes - Page 12

• It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

  Maria Callas

  Distance, House, Records

  "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

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• In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.

  Andy Cohen

  Fun, Thinking, Mind

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• Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Baseball, Games, Soap

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.101, Profile Books

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• I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

  Sophie Thompson

  Guy, Musical, Dolls

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• That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Strong, Years, Singing

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Groovy, Wanted, 80s

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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Doe, Needs, Cinema

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

  William Mapother

  Morning, Symphony, Classical Music

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• You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

  Michael Weatherly

  Jobs, Would Be, Soap

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• I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

  Jack Wagner

  Play, Soap, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  Zola Jesus

  Children, Emotional, Voice

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

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• The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  Zola Jesus

  Believe, Singing, Honest

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

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• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  Zola Jesus

  Vocabulary, Expression, Pieces

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

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• To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

  Billie Burke

  Latin, Ambition, Ego

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

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• The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

  Bette Midler

  Names, Foundation, Today

  Song: Otto Titsling, Album: Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

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• All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Soap

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• For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

  David Rubenstein

  Compelling

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• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  David Sanborn

  Country, Hip Hop, Different

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Singing, Acting, Singers

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• I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.

  Ester Dean

  Bigs, Fats, Showers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but my voice isn't really classical in the operatic sense. But I certainly have a classical sensibility, so I'm comfortable being in that world.

  Jason Graae

  Voice, Singing, World

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

  Ally Carter

  Grandma, Character, Littles

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Home, Character

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Talking, Shoes

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• The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  New York, Dad, Wall

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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