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 was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
Melinda Clarke 
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I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
Jeremy Bulloch
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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.
Bruce Beresford
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The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
John M. Ford
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Ruben Blades
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
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But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
John Eaton
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Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
Luciano Pavarotti
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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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