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Opera Quotes

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

Robertson Davies

World Opera Mere

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Life Night Down Manager First Opera

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Me Think Classic Opera Soap Again

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

Art Myself World Write Opera Little

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Work People Singing You Over Opera

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

Life Living Opera Soap Your Course

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

Today World Black Opera Position

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

Love Space You Opera Miss Epic

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Buildings Opera Obsessed Too

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

People Better Jazz Opera See Out

I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976.

Job Opera Through Production Got

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

House Want Opera Leave Prime Sing

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

People Glasses Wine Fat Say Opera

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

Loved Want Opera Act Because Sing

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Sleep Listening Way Opera Excellent

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I Am Christian Risk Opera Becoming

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Myself Training Opera Singer Though

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Time Why Opera Up Stay Nights

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Jazz Rock Opera Babel Requiem

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Work Respect Know Now Actor Opera

The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.

Nature Fun Think Political Opera

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

Poetry Research Seeing Digital Opera

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

New York City Bee New More Opera

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

Athlete Opera Singer Activity Sings

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