Quotes by Opera There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going. Mark Morris opera people H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. Marlene Dietrich stores hardware opera King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. Mason Cooley opera kings love I really wanted to be an opera soprano. Maureen O'Hara sopranos opera wanted A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties. Maurice Sendak opera italian two I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. Maurice Sendak classical-music opera designer I became a set designer for opera. Maurice Sendak opera designer The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] Mark Twain banging opera belief I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer. Meat Loaf opera rocks voice I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. Melinda Clarke opera singers light You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. Michael Weatherly opera would-be jobs They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. Michael Zaslow soap opera thinking I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. Mikhail Baryshnikov opera ballet mother I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky opera people ideas One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. Nathaniel Parker Willis opera morning country When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in. Nathan Fillion opera three years Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. Ned Rorem opera ballet musical The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself Nellie Melba opera art firsts Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Neville Marriner opera piano symphony I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. Nik Wallenda opera australia house «56789101112131415»