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My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. Rakim
Mother Jazz Performed Opera She Amateur Apollo Sang Even Night
I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was in a Latin soap opera - where are you gonna go with a nice guy in a Latin soap opera? Ralph Macchio
Character You Ugly Nice Latin Guy He Betty Opera Go Role Where Soap Soap Opera Gonna Sweetest Nice Guy Fun Nicest Play Playing
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. Randy Bachman
Life Relationship History My Life Journalist Doubt Changed Guess Our Once Bit Running No Doubt Joining Longest Opera Been Rocky Affiliation Forever Canadian May Soap Soap Opera January Who
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. Ray Liotta
Three Before Earth Guy Opera Years Where Soap Soap Opera Nicest
I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad. Regina King
Good Think Bad Entertaining Touch Empire Stereotypes Know Opera Sure Does Soap Soap Opera Necessarily
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. Renee Fleming
Great Live Think Kind Something Date Glamorous Performance Particular Opera Hugely Just Arts Romantic Whether Gained Really Special Appeal Live Performance Media Event Film Presented
Opera is really fun. Renee Fleming
Opera Really Fun
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. Renee Fleming
Art Will Become Living Worry Opera Opposed Art Form Historic Form Breathing Thing
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that. Renee Fleming
Say Constantly Classical Pushed Ideal Toward Opera Opera Singer Singer Mode Being Means European Reject
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. Renee Fleming
Music History Few Able Cross Opera Singers Been Very Popular Popular Music
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. Richard Harding Davis
Me Wednesday House Opera Opera House Came Friday Friday Night Left Junior Night
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976. Richard McCabe
Job Through Had Opera Schoolmaster Hall Got Production Who Peter
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them. Richard Wagner
Myself Strength Distract Enough Constantly Head New Opera Around Them Sketches Extent Here Buzzing Need
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. Rick Moranis
Music Listening Country Jazz Some Crossed Over Country Music Like Opera Limit Rock Been Taste Essentially
My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write. Rick Nielsen
Today Music Good Song Parents Every Enough Though Write Like Opera Singers Because Were Get Want Wanted Lucky Even Play
I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini. Rivers Cuomo
Music School Back Back To School One Of The Things Composer Lifestyle Songs Touring Study Over Opera Around Felt Limitations Rock Got Italian Same Frustrated Bus Things Playing
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. Robert Ashley
Me Theatre Television Possible Kind Would Would-Be Seemed Only Towards Contemporary Opera Interested Working Started
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. Robert Gottlieb
Simple Dance Unlike Those Opera Stories
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. Robert Gottlieb
School Despite Rigid More Paris Share Opera French Traditions La Than Done Famous Standards Company
'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction. Robert Kazinsky
Technology Science Reality Trek Tried About Liked Opera Always Behind Fiction Soap Soap Opera Grand Explain Might Far-Fetched Wars Star Star Trek Star Wars Why
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. Robert Lepage
Theatre People Spend Liberating Find Table About Weeks Know Opera Talking Parts Around Score Move Different Subtext Differently Two Two Weeks
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. Robert Lepage
You Hell Other Directors Had Opera Singers Been Want Warned
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. Robert Lepage
Music Art Architecture Dance Big Gatherings Meet He Invited Opera His Lot Art Forms Gabriel Place Which Forms Worked Creates Should Popular Peter
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. Robert Lepage
Needs Conservative Too Major Opera Houses Makeover Large
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera. Robert Lepage
You Man Happy Theatre World Cinema Internet Before Few Those Would Would-Be Tend Days Opera Were Forget Among Thing
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. Robert Wilson
Myself Increasingly Drawn Find Classic Shakespeare Opera Grand Forms
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