Quotes on Opera

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

Author: Jeremy Bulloch

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.

Author: Sarah Caldwell

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Author: Tony Curtis

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Author: Robertson Davies

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Author: Claude Debussy

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.

Author: William Devane

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Author: Placido Domingo

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Author: Carlisle Floyd

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Author: Judy Garland

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

Author: Bernard Haitink

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Author: Jerome Lawrence

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Author: Chris Lowe

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

Author: John Mellencamp

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

Author: Gian Menotti

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Author: Freddie Mercury

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

Author: Hannah More

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

Author: Kate O'Brien

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Author: Maureen O'Hara

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Author: Luciano Pavarotti

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Author: Terry Prachett

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Author: Bobby Short

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

Author: Tom Wopat

Quotes on Opera

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

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

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

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

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.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

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

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

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

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

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

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