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

John Mellencamp

Opera

Songs

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

First

Opera

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Music

Opera

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

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

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

Gustav Mahler

Gay

Opera

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Chris Lowe

Opera

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.