#pera

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#dvd #i #never #only #opera

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

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#operas #pieces #theatre #very #works

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness #function #heart #regardless #temperature

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#hard #oil #operating #refinery #use

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#built #came #composer #composers #concept

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? ↗

— Noel Coward

#any #exasperating #guarantee #less #reliable

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying