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Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna. – Ulrich Leisinger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not an opera singer but I am pretty good at singing, I think. – Sienna Szarek	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's been a real soap opera for the markets about whether the Fed is going to move or aren't they going to move. – Scott Brown	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We returned to Austria and visited the Vienna Opera House. Amyeven bungee jumped from the Danube Tower (the Fast Forward task in Leg 6 we weren't able to complete because of inclement weather). – Jason Case	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This is not a soap opera of personalities, i'm not interested in playing that game. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The board has a seen an interest in different alliances and cooperations with Opera over the last months. – Chairman Sverre Munck	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the end money speaks, talent walks. It’s a sad day for opera. – Norman Lebrecht	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our average audience is under 40 and 'Khovanskygate' had 200 volunteer participants whose average age was 28, and 50 percent of them were black or of mixed ethnicity, if we're talking about the future (of opera), that's what we need to talk about. – Graham Vick	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we're talking about the future (of opera), that's what we need to talk about. – Graham Vick	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was so scared, i closed my eyes, and I pretended that the music was Tchaikovsky, and I was dancing 'Romeo and Juliet' in the Budapest opera house. – Edith Eva Eger	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good. I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist, and I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it. – Chris Hemsworth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
No one was more passionate about his craft than Mike, he had recently been immersed in a new project for HBO to adapt 'Master Class,' Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play about opera legend Maria Callas. The project reunited him with Meryl Streep, one of his most frequent collaborators. – James Goldston	Found on CNN 9 years ago
But what do they amount to? It is confined and contained to a soap opera-like exchange that never leads to anything of consequence. – Aaron David Miller	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The success of South Korean brands has a lot to do with Chinese consumers copying the style of South Korean soap opera and music stars, they'll even go so far as to get the particular products being used by these stars. The stores will try to get in the exact shades that South Korean actresses are using. – Vivienne Rudd	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. – W. H. Auden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. – Hannah More, 1775	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one. – Hannah Moore	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. – Gioacchino Rosini	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. – Victor Borge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna.

– Ulrich Leisinger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm not an opera singer but I am pretty good at singing, I think.

– Sienna Szarek

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's been a real soap opera for the markets about whether the Fed is going to move or aren't they going to move.

– Scott Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We returned to Austria and visited the Vienna Opera House. Amyeven bungee jumped from the Danube Tower (the Fast Forward task in Leg 6 we weren't able to complete because of inclement weather).

– Jason Case

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is not a soap opera of personalities, i'm not interested in playing that game.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The board has a seen an interest in different alliances and cooperations with Opera over the last months.

– Chairman Sverre Munck

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the end money speaks, talent walks. It’s a sad day for opera.

– Norman Lebrecht

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our average audience is under 40 and 'Khovanskygate' had 200 volunteer participants whose average age was 28, and 50 percent of them were black or of mixed ethnicity, if we're talking about the future (of opera), that's what we need to talk about.

– Graham Vick

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we're talking about the future (of opera), that's what we need to talk about.

– Graham Vick

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I was so scared, i closed my eyes, and I pretended that the music was Tchaikovsky, and I was dancing 'Romeo and Juliet' in the Budapest opera house.

– Edith Eva Eger

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good. I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist, and I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it.

– Chris Hemsworth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

No one was more passionate about his craft than Mike, he had recently been immersed in a new project for HBO to adapt 'Master Class,' Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play about opera legend Maria Callas. The project reunited him with Meryl Streep, one of his most frequent collaborators.

– James Goldston

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But what do they amount to? It is confined and contained to a soap opera-like exchange that never leads to anything of consequence.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The success of South Korean brands has a lot to do with Chinese consumers copying the style of South Korean soap opera and music stars, they'll even go so far as to get the particular products being used by these stars. The stores will try to get in the exact shades that South Korean actresses are using.

– Vivienne Rudd

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

– Robertson Davies

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

– W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

– Hannah More, 1775