Top 1200 Opera Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on October 16, 2024.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
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.
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I went to college, I forgot about it.
Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put on the fire eventually.
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
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.
My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.
I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.
Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs.
My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
