Quotes by Opera What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform? Itay Talgam minimum-wage opera musician I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work. Jack Wagner soap opera play As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited. Jacob Hashimoto harder opera thinking Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history. Jacob Hashimoto opera stories made Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz philanthropy opera writing If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. Jaime Winstone costumes opera want There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. Jake Heggie opera shapes reason-why The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity." Jason Graae opera people world Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. Jasper Fforde spinach opera I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays. Jeff Britting opera film play The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy. Jeff MacNelly opera language tragedy I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera. Jencarlos Canela soap-operas soap opera I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television. Jerry Jones opera nfl giving Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. Joan Baez ipods opera littles I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it. Joan Collins opera respect actors Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life. Joe Lando opera aggravation choices For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. Johannes Brahms shallow opera delight I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it. John Adams opera growing-up thinking Life is an X-rated soap opera. John Irving soap opera life-is The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. John Marshall opera fancy reality «23456789101112»