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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. — Barry Bostwick

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera. — Alan Bradley

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

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him. — Susan Kay

To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words. — Bernardine Evaristo

We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage. — Rachel Tucker

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. — Noel Coward

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli

I became a set designer for opera. — Maurice Sendak

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes — Riley Amos Westbrook

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed. — Wallace Shawn

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

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief. — Eve Best

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. — Blythe Danner

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

If I were an opera singer, Id have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. — Lisa Kleypas

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean De La Bruyere

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. — James Gray

I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana — Susan Kay

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. — Karen Black

I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage. — P.G. Wodehouse

I see a symphony - and sometimes a grand opera - of elements that can be coordinated and harmonized to create a fantastic and memorable experience. — Marc J. Sievers

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

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera! — Groucho Marx

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation. — G.S. Jennsen

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. — Eli Broad

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. — John Lone

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. — Gemma Arterton

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. — William Mapother

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Why the hell do women always have to bring back up? It's not as if I'm going to molest her at the opera. — Poppet

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall

At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction. — Terry Teachout

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco