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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clark

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera. — Kathleen Battle

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes. — Slavoj Zizek

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

I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in. — Sondra Radvanovsky

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. — Andrea Bocelli

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed

The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness. — A.G. Howard

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

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. — Placido Domingo

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Everyone loves a murder, eh? Villains in the night, tragic heroines splattered in gore. Better than an opera. Bloody vultures. — Viola Carr

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it. — George Burns

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. — Victor Hugo

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

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man. — Elisabeth Rohm

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

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

Oh for Christ sake What's the name of this soap opera, The Bored and The Addlebrained? At least half you Snow Girls have a serious boyfriend. — Lee DeBourg

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. — Bruce Beresford

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva — Josh Groban

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

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. — Stefan Kanfer

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

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera. — Simon McBurney

Monsieur, you must be mad!
Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. — Jennifer Aniston

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

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. — Wim Wenders

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it. — Octavia E. Butler

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen. — Patti Smith

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home. — Martin Amis

THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED. — Gaston Leroux

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

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming. — Peter Boyle

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera. — Ronald Biggs

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! — Gaston Leroux

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

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage. — Loretta Chase

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. — Chaka Khan

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

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing. — Claude Debussy

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

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them. — G.S. Jennsen

If they liked a tune, they wanted to hear it again - now! The vibe was more like CBGB than your typical contemporary opera house. — David Byrne

Has father from Heaven
Sent the Angel to me? — E.A. Bucchianeri

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. — Ray Liotta

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears. — Lord Chesterfield

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. — Douglas Adams

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful. — Rufus Wainwright

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. — Mason Cooley

Opera? Dear God why?' That was the last thing I needed. A bunch of fat and painted idiots wailing at me from a stage for several hours. 'Just — Mark Lawrence

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 was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. — Dorothy Malone

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. — Richard H. Davis

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. — Mason Cooley

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

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

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 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

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy. — Alan Dershowitz

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

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

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

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

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

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera. — Maria Karnilova

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game. — Margaret Atwood

The Scorpion?
The Grasshopper?
Which way will she go? — E.A. Bucchianeri

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. — Alan Hirsch

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. — Bruce Beresford

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized. — David Cronenberg

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music. — Sondra Radvanovsky

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera. — Chris Lowe

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me. — Andrea Bocelli

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
— Maria Callas

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul. — Fanny Burney

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. — Nik Wallenda

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. — Sarah Caldwell

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti

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

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.' — Lindy Booth

...if you want to know what my ultimate goal is in all this, I can tell you in one simple sentence. I want to take the stick out of opera's ass. — Cindy Irish

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! — Gaston Leroux

Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins. — Marita Knobel