Pastoral Resources

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

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

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.