I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick
HateOperaOutGetLikeReally
Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.
Sondra Radvanovsky
MusicBeyondOperaAnythingAbove
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
Daniel Barenboim
EyesMoreOperaThroughThingsUsed
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Tony Curtis
I AmSongOperaOutSingerPaint
Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.
Rocky Wirtz
WaitGamesWatchingAlwaysOperaTV
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
Rufus Wainwright
LoveExperienceSongKindOpera
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
Luciano Pavarotti
ArtImportantAppreciatedOperaMost
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
Joyce Maynard
MyselfThinkRealisticOperaSoap
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
Doug Davidson
MeSillySeriousOperaSoapEasier
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
Cheryl Mendelson
MusicNewRockListenWriteOpera
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford
OperaBeenLikeInterestedReally
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
Alice Ripley
MusicPlaceRockNextOperaNormal
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
Phil Klay
LoveMeJazzSoundOperaMakes
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
Tika Sumpter
FamilyMomCareerSheOperaSinger
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
PeopleWrongSayThey SayOpera
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
Marianne Faithfull
SingingFirstOperaSeeMaria
I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
Kenneth Lonergan
GreatMyselfThinkEndEnoughOpera
I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.
Kristian Nairn
MusicAgeSchoolGuitarPlayOpera
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler
SmallGayOperaSimply
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
Gordon Getty
TeacherMeRememberFirstOpera
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
Elisabeth Rohm
JobManInvisibleNextOperaSoap
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli
SomeoneFirstEverythingOpera
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
Alan Dershowitz
LoveEnergyPlayMuseumsOperaSit
I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
Joel Kinnaman
OperaSoapSoap OperaSwedish
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