The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead.
Jonathan Miller
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
Goeran Gentele
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Cleveland Amory
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.
Brian Deedrick
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.
Frank Mcclain
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.
Peter Robinson
It is important to give students a sense of the demand of this music, ... Operetta is more challenging than opera.
Robert Larsen
Gaming devices are growing more advanced and a great Web experience is becoming a product differentiator for gaming manufacturers. Opera is excited to work with Nintendo to deliver a unique dual screen, full Internet experience on Nintendo DS.
Scott Hedrick
We are in the process of launching a major virtual opera house tour.
Naomi Grabel
She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects. Like every art form, there is the pain and the joy and, of course, the peculiarities specific to that art form.
Kathy Hotchner
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
James Stephens
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Luciano Pavarotti
The person who really knows opera is going to enjoy it. And for people new to opera, this is a good first step. They will like this.
Kathy Hotchner
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 don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
In opera, there is always too much singing.
Claude Debussy
We are determined to bring a new audience to opera. If we don't, then I'm afraid the form will wither and die.
Paul Kellogg
Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my mother and father that it was my destiny to sing there, that I was going to sing at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.
Dixie Carter
For a lot of people, price and the length of performances are obstacles to coming into an opera house. Also there is a sense of elitism that keeps people from coming into the doors.
Paul Kellogg
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
Bryn Terfel
Baseball plays out like an opera.
Paul Dickson
The opera singer enjoys his classical music career but looks forward to the concerts with his younger singing partner, Michael Messer, with equal anticipation.
John Mccullers
Placido said I should try different things, ... So we came up with the idea of introducing the character of Offenbach into the opera to explain things and move the action along. They told me I couldn't change the music, but I could add my own interpretation to the book.
Garry Marshall
I have a commitment to developing young singers and exposing opera to a larger public.
Anthony Waters
Are we having a soap opera or a trial here?
John O'gara
This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.
David Lindsey
We had one who wanted us to fly them from Australia and another who wanted a Met Opera tenor to sing during dinner. I said that would cost them $200,000!
Stephen Shapiro
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
He was found to be uncultured when he was caught not knowing anything about European history, opera, art and so on.
Rosemary Hollis
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
Franco Zeffirelli
The soap opera is true; here in Brazil poor people have no chance.
Tarcila Madureira Silva
I'd heard that you can make people laugh in opera.
Garry Marshall
People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward
It's not the full-fledged, three-act opera with the overly dramatic theatrics. It's light and fun.
Martha Firling
Our director of education focuses on finding innovating and interactive experiences. It's hands-on, interactive. I think that is unlocking the door to the children's awareness of what opera is, that is what's making it accessible.
Scott Altman
We have to have awareness for the soap opera. It's a vicious circle, the way it works.
Stephen Walkom
Typically, most pages don't look very good on a mobile phone, but Opera has done a good job formatting and compressing the content for handhelds.
Dave Linsalata
We have opera, we have comedy, and we have...everything…. It's very loving and warm.
David Turner
I really enjoyed it and I am not really an opera kind of person. The actors and actresses voices are amazing.
Colleen Ryan
We know now that it was sabotage. There were jealous musicians in the audience who had come to boo it. The whole thing was a fiasco, and Puccini withdrew the opera.
Benton Hess
Richard had an excellent ear and knew exactly what a young artist needed to be singing ? or needed to be avoiding ? in order to make the most of a career. Of course, he was also helpful to them and to everybody because he had an encyclopedic knowledge of opera.
William Mason
It takes two to tango, three to make a soap opera!
Karan Omidvari
The only thing the opera can do to survive is to restructure.
Sharon Heitman
The most important mission we have is to get back to the business of doing opera. And to do opera which draws an audience that will provide the ticket sales that will keep the company going.
Sharon Heitman
I've spent 15 years in arts marketing and arts management in the US and the Sydney Opera House really is the pinnacle.
Naomi Grabel
[Another browser, Opera, has also gained, especially in Europe.] The incumbents are vulnerable, ... Today, those are the juiciest targets.
David Cowan
Which were not about being applauded as you made your entrance to the opera. They were about crying in your room, feeling lonely, hoping for sex.
Joan Juliet Buck
All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.
Alfred Anderson
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
Sir Thomas Beecham
The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.
John Wright
Everything from blues to opera!
Jelly Roll Morton
I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.
Alfred Anderson
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
Stefan Kanfer
When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera.
Mark Adamo
'Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing.
David Bryant
She told me I had a beautiful voice and could be a professional opera singer.
Victoria Avetisyan
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioacchino Rossini
The Phantom of the Opera.
Steve Harley
My show is a little porn, a little documentary and a little soap opera. I don't hide anything. I allow the media to come into my home and business and see how we live.
Dennis Hof
[Opera] artists don't hit their prime until 35 or 40, depending on the voice.
Sonia Gariaeff
I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre.
Robert Raines
We desegregated that opera house and made it possible for people to sit anywhere.
Charles Mathias
Now audiences will be able to hear opera the way it is supposed to sound.
Peter Russell
There are no parts of this story that are not worthy of daytime soap opera.
Steven Bernstein
I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera.
Michael Cunningham
Sometimes I can't help but think you and I are playing a role in this bizarre Anacortes soap opera.
Roy Howson
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Victor Borge
People say they would use Opera, if they wouldn't have to spend money to buy it. This gives them an option.
Jon Von Tetzchner
When you can find somebody or something that relates to you and your experiences, it puts opera in a whole different perspective.
Anthony Waters
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
[But in one big way, movies and opera are not alike.] The budget for 'The Grand Duchess' was $2 million, ... The budget for 'Runaway Bride' was $72 million.
Garry Marshall
What would gripe him the most is here are a great new breed of athletes who never get to truly demonstrate what they have because they're lost in the sleazy soap opera.
Larry Matysik
Opera 8 on Sony Ericsson's P990 benefits not only end users with a fast and full-featured Internet experience, but operators as well.
Jon Von Tetzchner
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
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
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Irvin S. Cobb
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.
George Crumb
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading.
Placido Domingo
I thought if I could get television interested in opera, it would make a kind of new thing that would allow composers to build a whole new repertoire.
Robert Ashley
I've used opera in a lot in my movies.
Garry Marshall
Phantom of the Opera.
Roy Furman
The stage for ballet will be, probably, the best in the state. It's the size of a real opera house. That's an exciting aspect.
Robert Weiss
I call it a bit of a soap opera.
Tara Birtwhistle
God knows how it will all end. It's an exceptional crisis for Germany's opera houses. There have never been such long strikes here before. If the strikes continue until July, we will have major losses. The damage will be permanent.
Klaus Zehelein
She does opera. She does rock. She does pop. She does country.
Becky Thomas
There was a moment in time when Boston really did not have any opera. This rapid growth is really a response to a vacuum that existed.
Marc Scorca
It's the climax emotionally as well as vocally. Lucia doesn't just snap. We see this propensity to madness developing throughout the opera.
Andrew Sinclair
My understanding of opera is like how foreigners look at Peking opera. Love it but have no deep understanding.
Zhang Yimou
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