Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.
I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.
Opera is really fun.
There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.
I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.
I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.
When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'
