I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
Maurice Sendak
LoveMusicGreatOperaSetDesigner
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
Rafael Nadal
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Andy Grove
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'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships.
Kameron Hurley
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd
ArtMeOperaAnythingSeemsJust
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
Stewart Copeland
MusicPeopleYouWantOperaOut
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
Bar Paly
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I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Tom Wopat
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
Robert Wilson
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley
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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
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There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
Josh Groban
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I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Dorothy Malone
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For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.
Christoph Waltz
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Bruce Beresford
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
William Mapother
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At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.
Sylvie Guillem
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I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
Tim O'Reilly
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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Renee Fleming
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
Lindsey Buckingham
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I'm by no means an opera buff.
Kenneth Branagh
OperaMeansBuff
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Kevin Kline
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What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
Howard Jacobson
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