Operetta Vs Opera Quotes & Sayings

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity." — Jason Graae

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers. — John Ruskin

Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail. — Tony Vincent

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform. — Sid Meier

Apologize for what?" "For hurting you. For not trusting you and listening to Lily and Alex instead of staying strong and doing what I wanted. — Helena Hunting

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful. — Charlize Theron

Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms. — Harper Lee

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness. — Jason Graae

Spring declares itself solely in the quality of the air or the little baskets of flowers that street-sellers bring in from the suburbs; this is a spring that is sold in the market-place. — Albert Camus

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws. — John Quincy Adams

I'm alive and I want to keep living. — Diego Maradona

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all. — Martin Luther

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. — Janelle Monae

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within. — Mark Helprin

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process. — Curtis Jackson

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. — Gustav Mahler