In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
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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.
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It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.
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The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.
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Bed is the poor man's opera.
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The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
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We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera.. And it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
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Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.
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There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
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Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
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I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings
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I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
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Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6: 20
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Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.
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My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.
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The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead
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Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
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