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Placido said I should try different things, ... So we came up with the idea of introducing the character of Offenbach into the opera to explain things and move the action along. They told me I couldn't change the music, but I could add my own interpretation to the book.

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge? ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.

I wish that every opera company in America had a VOX season. There is nothing more helpful in making the public aware of the richness and variety of operatic music being written today. The composers represent the entire country. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the VOX season is a National Treasure!

I think opera is probably the exact same thing as boxing-a bunch of big, strangely dressed people making strange noises for a really long time.

I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

We had one who wanted us to fly them from Australia and another who wanted a Met Opera tenor to sing during dinner. I said that would cost them $200,000!

Typically, most pages don't look very good on a mobile phone, but Opera has done a good job formatting and compressing the content for handhelds.

You know, a soap opera - you watch it every day, and nothing changes,

The quarterback position is like a soap opera. You and I could have watched a certain soap opera in 1990, and you and I could be watching it over a beer in 2005, and it will be the same qualities, the same story, the same everything, except that the hairstyles have changed.

We are in the process of launching a major virtual opera house tour.

We are doing a collaboration with the concert choir on Palm Sunday, April 9. We are also trying to plan an opera for next year.

We are conveying the idea that Peking Opera is also part of fashion. Of all our customers so far, some were Peking Opera admirers like Lu, and the rest came simply because of our art photos.

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

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas...

The experience of being in the audience when a play or an opera is being performed is not simply passive. Children need to go to the theatre as much as they need to run about in the fresh air.

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

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

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.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

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

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

I want to do rock operas.

We don't need soap opera watchers all day. We need people who are coming back if you are able.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

When I was younger, I also dreamed of being an opera singer, simply because of Maria Callas.

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

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There are a number of ways Opera can make money off the browser, but all that requires volume. Removing the price tag and the banner ads increases the likelihood that more people will use the browser. More eyeballs means more revenue off the browser without charging for or putting banner ads in people's faces.

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

The photo may not be exactly what the Pittsburgh Opera expects, but it carries out the wager and reflects the feelings of all of us at Seattle Opera.

The person who really knows opera is going to enjoy it. And for people new to opera, this is a good first step. They will like this.

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.

The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings

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.

To have nature directly admitted into the San Francisco Opera House is pretty risky because of its unpredictability. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done.

You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.

You have applications like Opera so users can view the real Web, but sometimes the experience is still painful and slow.

We don't want people to think they have to put on pearls and furs to see opera. We want people to feel comfortable and have an engaging experience. We want them to be challenged by the material, but not by the economics. Opera is not just for the wealthy.

This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.

This soap opera has done nothing to erase Hillary Clinton's vulnerabilities. She starts with 30 percent who would vote against her, no matter what. That's a pretty high stepping off point for a challenger.

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.

This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved.

Besides, the opera contains realistic sword fights, accompaniment by the Utah Symphony and amazing singers. It will be one of the most romantic productions ever to come to Salt Lake City.

Even though there are so many Indian touches, this opera is very deeply rooted in French operatic traditions. For instance, in one scene I describe Shiva as being a blonde woman. That might seem ridiculous to you and me, but it's how Bizet perceived it back in the 19th century.

Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my mother and father that it was my destiny to sing there, that I was going to sing at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.

There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetry, dance, sculpture - there's something for everybody. Opera works really well for integrating the arts.

The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre,

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

I've told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and willing to do so here. I think the Met is the luckiest opera house in the world to have him as its music director and I hope that he will be at the center of its artistic life for the foreseeable future. It would be a terrible blow for me and my plans if he was not here.

I've used opera in a lot in my movies,

I've spent 15 years in arts marketing and arts management in the US and the Sydney Opera House really is the pinnacle.

The story, of course, is the well-known children's tale, and the music is appropriate for very young children, who are able to follow the story, and the more sophisticated musical audience. There's definitely an appeal for families who might be nervous about viewing opera for the first time, and the seasoned audiences who are more experienced with traditional musical scores.

The soap opera will continue. I wouldn't take them off stage altogether as some people are doing.

I've become accustomed to it. It's always a soap opera around here, no matter what. If there's not a soap opera going on, it's not Boston.

Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.

Pretty much, you want to have Brad and Angelina somewhere on every cover, I think. They're the ongoing Hollywood soap opera these days. Any new pictures of them are news.

People think it's all rich people, but it's a very hardworking cross section of people in our league who want to see opera thrive.

Our director of education focuses on finding innovating and interactive experiences. It's hands-on, interactive. I think that is unlocking the door to the children's awareness of what opera is, that is what's making it accessible.

People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme, ... They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to love it, but it will never become part of their soul.

Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.

Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you.

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No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.

Some people might speculate that Opera couldn't compete by charging when AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and most other browser developers give away software for free. Not so. Just the opposite is true,

Now audiences will be able to hear opera the way it is supposed to sound.

Now it is the last party to share the friendship Ballet Company of Opera de Paris is the last bouquet we present to China. Because of the company's high reputation of its artistic style and professionalism in the world as well as its long history and powerful artistic vitality, it is the ideal representative to bring down the curtain of Year of France,

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

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.

Are we having a soap opera or a trial here?

A Puccini opera ... something that takes peoples' breath away. I'm proud of everything we do, but some music is intended to take you out on a limb, and some music is a little more balanced. People generally don't have incredibly tragic responses to Dr. Seuss, so you're not going to get the full gamut of emotional range.

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

As a fledgling company, we made this choice as a first production one that allowed us to really stay true to the opera and not overwhelm ourselves with managing a very large cast.

This is really an opportunity to provide choice. Now users can select the safest and fastest Internet browser. Increasing our market share allows Opera to play a stronger role in shaping the future of Web innovation.

Although opera in Scotland has its unique problems, it also presents unique possibilities. If you can come up with solutions, good and well.

This is very definitely an opera -- there's no spoken dialogue at all, but because of the use of folk songs, it's a very unique type of performance.

There, I was an opera coach. The school was competitive, but in a positive way. We supported each other and our abilities.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

It's almost an unbelievable story when you go through all the events that happened there. It's much more of a soap opera than in other states.

For a lot of people, price and the length of performances are obstacles to coming into an opera house. Also there is a sense of elitism that keeps people from coming into the doors.

It's not the full-fledged, three-act opera with the overly dramatic theatrics. It's light and fun.