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
Tony Curtis 
H. L. Mencken 
Mordechai Vanunu 
Judy Garland 
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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns 
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One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
Lesley Garrett
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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller
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Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
Lesley Garrett
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
John Mellencamp
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Sarah Caldwell
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'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.
Timothy Dalton
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