Opera Quotes - Page 17

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

  William Mapother

  Morning, Symphony, Classical Music

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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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• I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

  Garth Greenwell

  Conservatory, Left

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

  Garth Greenwell

  New York, Night, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York, Real, Home

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