Opera Quotes - Page 21

I'd like to direct more operas.

Simon Callow

Direct

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I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Nina Arianda

Singing, Singers, Lasts

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I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

Nina Arianda

Mom, Kids, Play

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I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mother, Children, Smell

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

Night, Sigh Of Relief, Two

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I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

Jeremy Bulloch

Years, Play, Three

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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

Kelli O'Hara

Want, Wanted

"DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Harrison Birtwistle

Ideas, Musical, Matter

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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Harrison Birtwistle

Theatre, Pieces, Formal

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Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

David Henry Hwang

Men, Roles, Know How

David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.49, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?" asked Hamilton. "It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.

Gordon Korman

Squares, House, Rolling

Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fake People, Real, Soap

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Brian Swimme

Rocks, Years, Earth

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The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Brian Swimme

Rocks, Earth

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I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

Aristotle Onassis

Hate, Thinking, Italian

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My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Uplifting, Nature, Profession

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

Jane Wagner

Goal, Worry, Tunes

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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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Stars, Thinking, I Can

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My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Erik Satie

Dream

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Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

Erik Satie

Moving, Character, Atmosphere

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I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

Classic, Century, Baroque Music

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For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Chester Bennington

Thinking, Records, Firsts

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

Dennis Lehane

Pain, Ivy, Voice

"Visitation Street". Book by Ivy Pochoda, 2013.

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Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Method Man

Book, Eight, Years

FaceBook post by Method Man from Aug 19, 2015

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I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick, the first and only thing that will be directly changed by my magical operation will be me. Once I am changed, then the new changed me will then somehow affect or attract the desired object of my operation.

Lon Milo DuQuette

Believe, Self, Wish

Lon Milo DuQuette (2011). “Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is”, p.27, Llewellyn Worldwide

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