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
OperaHappenSingerSkinnyGoing
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.
Andrea Bocelli
CarPassionButterflyListenOpera
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Jacqueline Novogratz
WritingOperaCheckPhilanthropy
What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
George Gaynes
ActingOperaSingerLeftReasons
I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
John Patrick Shanley
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
Dario Argento
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If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.
Robert Lepage
WorkPeopleWorldYouOperaDecide
I love to conduct opera.
Zubin Mehta
LoveOperaConductI Love
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
Robert Gottlieb
SimpleDanceOperaStoriesThose
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
R. Kelly
GoodMusicMeLongOperaAnything
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
John Philip Sousa
BeautyMusicPowerfulStageOpera
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen
LoveMePerformanceCircusOpera
I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.
Sondra Radvanovsky
KnowOperaSingerOpera SingerToo
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
Carlisle Floyd
AttentionOperaLittlePressGiven
For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
Simon McBurney
YearsOperaInterestedLeastBit
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
Barry Bostwick
RockOperaEvenLaterRichard
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Benchley
BackDyingOperaGuyWhereHe
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
Robert Wilson
MyselfFindClassicOperaGrand
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
MotherMeRememberSeeingSheOpera
I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera.
Lizz Wright
OperaLittleBeenGospelLittle Bit
It's important that the art forms communicate, whether it's the dance program with the jazz program or the classical program with the opera program, that these conversations becomes fluid.
Jason Moran
ArtDanceImportantJazzOpera
I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'"
Donald Sinden
SayingRememberYouTelevisionOpera
In opera, there is always too much singing.
Claude Debussy
SingingToo MuchAlwaysOperaMuch
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