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I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?
Vladimir Horowitz / Pianist
Opera
Opera House
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
House
Opera
Opera House
Administrator
Director
Run
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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
Nik Wallenda / Acrobat
Australia
House
Opera
Opera House
Sydney
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One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
Katherine Kelly /
Memories
Opera
Opera House
Up And Down
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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 / Journalist
Friday
Friday Night
Opera
Opera House
Wednesday
Junior
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My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart.
Gladys Berejiklian /
Opera
Opera House
Sail
Special Place
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I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
Earth
House
Opera
Opera House
Royal
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The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
Anna Netrebko / Operatic Soprano
Concerts
House
Jewellery
Opera
Opera House
Stage
Wear
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I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.
Gladys Berejiklian /
Opera
Opera House
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We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
Rachel Tucker /
Opera
Opera House
Pantomime
Dame
Grand
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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
Tony Harrison / Poet
Opera
Opera House
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
National Theatre
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At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
Deborah Bull / Writer
Challenges
House
Opera
Opera House
Pursue
Royal
Television
Enjoying
Particularly
New Challenge
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I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
Chris Cornell / Musician
House
Opera
Opera House
Sydney
Voodoo
Week
Extreme
Songbook
Tour
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
Nana Mouskouri / Singer
Beautiful
Forget
House
Memories
Never Forget
Opera
Opera House
Sydney
Wonderful
Most
Life Memories Beautiful
Life Beautiful Most Beautiful
Ever
Sang
Most Beautiful
My Life
Sung
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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
Renee Fleming / Consultant
Concerts
House
Opera
Opera House
Performers
Singers
Want
Circuit
Partly
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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
Lesley Garrett / Singer
First Time
House
Melbourne
Opera
Opera House
Performing
Sydney
Years
Years Ago
Festival
Performed
Pleased
Returning
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Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.
Jose Carreras / Performer
House
Metropolitan
Opera
Opera House
Prestigious
Tradition
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas / Opera Singer
Imagination
Ends
House
Left
Long
Opera
Opera House
Life Long My Life
Come
After
Becomes
Before
Part
Curtain
Life Imagination My Life
Down
Goes
My Life
Starts
Stays
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Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.
Raymond Bonner /
Ocean
Characteristics
Defining
Hammered
Harbour
Opera
Opera House
Rocks
Sydney
Well Known
Bridge
Edge
Pools
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
Sam Taylor-Johnson /
Catalyst
Cinema
Opera
Opera House
Royal
Thrust
Life Work Me
Way Life
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The Opera House guidelines have from time to time been amended, whether it's for other sporting events or other causes. The guidelines have always been stretched in the part and the commercialisation of the Opera House has always been there.
Gladys Berejiklian /
Causes
Guidelines
Opera
Opera House
Amended
From Time To Time
Stretched
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
Donna Leon / Author
Book
Conductor
Escalation
Ideas
Opera
Opera House
Talking
Good Me Back
Good Idea
La
None
Somehow
Struck
Whom
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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
Frank Gehry / Architect
Vacation
Architecture
House
Opera
Opera House
People
Sydney
Thinking
Money Great People
Compels
Spend
So Many People
Surrounded
Vacations
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Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
Lapo Elkann / Entrepreneur
Design
Bronze
Furniture
Given
House
Nobel
Opera
Opera House
Research
Bath
Behind
Fabrics
Immediately
Italians
La
Magazine
Premier
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne Mcgregor / Choreographer
Audience
Debate
Opera
Opera House
People
Responsibility
Thinking
Wonderful
Challenge
Cultivate
Deliver
Major
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The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of those seemingly ethereal beings who floated about in the highest echelons of musical accomplishment, effortlessly producing virtuoso performances in several different languages.
Ann Widdecombe / British Politician
Accomplishment
Appearing
Immense
Opera
Opera House
Refinement
Royal
Virtuoso
Languages
Effortlessly
Producing
Seemingly
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo / Author
Architecture
Admire
Boring
Changed
Downtown
Harbour
House
Museums
Opera
Opera House
Oslo
Ships
Tall
Water
Cosmopolitan
Edge
Eighties
Museum
Visit
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One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Julie Andrews / Film Actress
Adapted
Connecticut
Great American
Los Angeles
Opera
Opera House
Orchestra
Performers
Symphony
Angeles
Board
Directed
Los
Member
Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
Martin Filler /
Cities
Fine
Highlights
House
League
Masterpiece
Opera
Opera House
Oslo
Planning
Triumph
Although
Among
Architectural
Big Leagues
Certainly
Indeed
Leagues
Measure
Rank
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People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
Bryn Terfel / Bass
Intensity
Opera
Opera House
Stomach
Tied
Best People Will
Best Your May
Certain Things
Best May Your
Contract
Sign
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In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Acoustics
Europe
Fifth
Germany
House
Opera
Opera House
Orchestra
Size
Towns
Two
Unusual
Connection
Dozens
Hamburg
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I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.
David Wenham / Actor
Teacher
Curb
Disruptive
Drama
Lucky
Monday
Opera
Opera House
Ritual
Saturday
Youth
Youth Me Parents
Became
Classes
Send
Suggested
Sundays
Thereafter
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Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.
Heather Watts /
Achievement
Ballet
Dancer
Debut
Iconic
Masterpiece
Metropolitan
Misty
Opera
Opera House
Alight
Center
Crowning
Current
Queen
Lake
Lincoln
Regardless
Swan
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