Opera Quotes - Page 2

• Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

  Graeme Murphy

  Drama, Theatre, Four

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

  Tom Wopat

  Rocks, Tunes, Different

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

  Michael Zaslow

  Thinking, Soap, Classic

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• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

  Parker Posey

  School, Acting, Done

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• I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

  Dorothy Malone

  Stars, Night, Soap

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

  Julie Taymor

  Mean, Self, Years

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor". "NOW on PBS" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2002.

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• If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Way, Certain, Approach

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• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Next Week, Years

  Interview with Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. July 08, 1995.

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

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Powerful, Stage

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• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Character, Play, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

  Israel Zangwill

  Love, Life, Passion

  Israel Zangwill (1893). “Without Prejudice”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

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• Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Children, People

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• 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

  Timothy Dalton

  Book, Memorable, Wind

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• I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Sopranos, Wanted

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

  W. H. Auden

  Horse, Gun, Wicked

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• This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.

  Michael A. Walsh

  Stars, Powerful, Destiny

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• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

  Dario Argento

  Heart, Dark, Cold

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• People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

  Bryn Terfel

  Thinking, People, House

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

  Lesley Garrett

  Football, Drama, Cost

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

  William Devane

  Missing You, Doe, Soap

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• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  Edith Wharton

  Music, Artist, Italian

  The Age of Innocence ch. 1 (1920)

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• OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Song, Attitude

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.174, University of Georgia Press

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  Hannah More

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Baseball, Italian

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