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“I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.”

Knows Lasts Faces Know How Minutes Singing My Favorite Singers Seats Opera Burned Last Minute Sobbing Aria Mimi Favorite Singer

Author:Nina Arianda

“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 least not while they are in their prime.”

Want House Singers Prime Concerts Performers Opera Circuits Opera House

Author:Renee Fleming

“I'd like to direct more operas.”

Author:Simon Callow

“The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.”

Whole Jobs Vision Concepts Built Genre Opera Composer

Author:Stewart Copeland

“It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.”

Serious Easier Silly Opera Soap Soap Operas Being Silly

Author:Doug Davidson

“To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.”

Ifs World Enough Letting Go Good Enough Opera Embarrassing Soap Not Good Enough Soap Operas Bashers

Author:Cam Gigandet

“When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.”

Firsts Stills Remember Teacher Four Like Me Piano Opera Composer Piano Teachers

Author:Gordon Getty

“I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.”

Our Lives Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Ashley Benson

“If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.”

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.”

People Hard Able Challenges Hard Work Intelligent Mediums Opera Soap Soap Operas Good Living

Author:David Canary

“I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.”

Light Singers Opera Opera Singers

Author:Melinda Clarke

“When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.”

I Can Europe Phenomenon Opera

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“I want to do rock operas.”

Want Rocks Opera

Author:Corey Feldman

“I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.”

Author:Ford Frick

“I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.”

Thinking Kind Art Film Special Media Events Particular Performances Appeals Opera Glamorous Live Performance Special Events

Author:Renee Fleming

“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.”

Has Beens Problem Faces Artist Attention Groups Media Music Is Awful Opera Elites Classical Music Elitist

Author:Lesley Garrett

“Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?”

Loses Football Drama Cost Opera Credible Football Match

Author:Lesley Garrett

“To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.”

Author:Lesley Garrett

“My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.”

Art Wanted My Own Path Dad My Family Let Me My Dad Appreciation Singers Opera Grandfather Supportive My Grandfather Opera Singers

Author:Tony Hale

“I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'”

Firsts Acting Roles Tvs Opera Soap Workshops Soap Operas

Author:Famke Janssen

“I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.”

Different Influence Opera

Author:Zola Jesus

“I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.”

Years Jesus Performing Opera Zola

Author:Zola Jesus

“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Way Children Use Sound Voice Emotional Lessons Singing Scream Opera Compulsion Formidable Opera Singing

Author:Zola Jesus

“The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.”

Should Believe I Believe Honest Singing Performances Being Honest Performing Opera Theatrical Cringe

Author:Zola Jesus

“True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.”

Knows Hard Problem Pieces Expression Performing Dramatic Rely Opera Vocabulary Guidelines

Author:Zola Jesus

“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”

Needs Ego Ambition Revolutionary Latin Opera Cows Rebellious Stamina Ponies Tenors Latin American

Author:Billie Burke

“The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.”

Today Names Modern Lovers Scientist Foundation Opera Inventor Garments Dense

Author:Bette Midler