Top 1200 Opera Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on October 12, 2024.
I feel that if Bollywood singers focus on non-film music as well... like this EP 'Naina,' which has songs sung by Sonu Nigam and Devender Pal Singh, it is really good.
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the volume at which you're producing this medium is incredible.
I'm like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It's what my mum and dad taught me.
I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.
I love female musicians, female singers.
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.
Before Bianca?? I don't remember that far back! That would've been in my teens. I was working in local theater and opera, doing costumes, hair and makeup.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.
To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.
My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It's theater onscreen.
As a girl, I remember looking up to pop singers, and they all had long, straight weaves and light skin. And I thought, 'That's what I have to look like if I'm going to be fierce and sexy and all those things.'
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.
I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
We made history. Two Latin urban singers on the cover of Billboard is incredible. I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of J Balvin, our music, and of all Latinos.
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.
The whole cast of Sirphire' was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting and we formed our own trio.
It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.
'All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.
Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that singers aren't singing, but shouting out loud. Where's the melody?
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind of fun to figure out who they came up with and who they emulated or who they idolized actually.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.
