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
Trevor Nunn 
Bobby McFerrin 
Hannah More 
Edward Appleton 
John Eaton 
Victor Borge 
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
Lindsey Buckingham 
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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
Johnny Mathis
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Freddie Mercury
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
John Lone
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Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Bobby Short
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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
Peter Shaffer
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To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
Lesley Garrett
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