Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings..
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!.
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a 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 seas….
My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to….
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing..
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the pu….
I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera..
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas..
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't rela….
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by….
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens….
I would love to sing opera..
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music..
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at le….
Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute..
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire..
Soap operas got nothing on my family history..
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady..
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process..
Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All t….