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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. -- Nik Wallenda
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. -- Rufus Wainwright
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. -- Richard H. Davis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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-Wood
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
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
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
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
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. -- Steven Berkoff
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. -- Bernard Haitink
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. -- Alvar Aalto
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. -- Suzanne Curchod
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. -- Chaka Khan
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house. -- Susan Stroman
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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