Top Opera Quotes
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Luciano Pavarotti
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Nellie Melba
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey
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I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Luciano Pavarotti 
75% of people like this quote
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
69% of people like this quote
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Nellie Melba
62% of people like this quote
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
62% of people like this quote
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey
61% of people like this quote
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden
61% of people like this quote
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.
Joe Lando
60% of people like this quote
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien
60% of people like this quote
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.
Rudolf Bing
60% of people like this quote
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