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

Placido Domingo, Spanish Musician

Opera, Singing, Voice

"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, American Composer

Opera, Television, Theatre

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

John Mellencamp, American Musician

Opera, Songs

"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."

Chris Lowe, English Musician

Opera,

"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."

Tom Wopat, American Actor

Opera,

"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."

Cleveland Amory, American Historian

Opera, Husbchallenge, Support

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

Bernard Haitink, Dutch Musician

Opera,

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."

Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian Composer

Opera,

"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."

Bruce Beresford, Australian Director

Opera, Drama, Play, Singing

"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."

Lindsey Buckingham, American Musician

Opera,

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

"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."

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."

"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."

"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."

"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."

"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."

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"I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth."

"In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing."

"Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year."

"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."