A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
歌剧
Opera
Opera is really fun.
歌剧真的很有趣。
I don't like rock opera with back beats.
我不喜欢有节奏的摇滚歌剧。
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
我想离开主要的歌剧院。
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
睡觉是听歌剧的好方法。
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
在歌剧世界里，一个剧作家只不过是一个苦力。
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
古板的中年人喜欢歌剧的狂热。
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
即使在今天的歌剧世界里，黑人男高音的地位也是有问题的。
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
历史上很少有歌剧演员能够跨界进入流行音乐领域。
Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you that I can't keep loving you.
我有一半的心告诉你，我不能一直爱你。
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
歌剧的第一条规则就是人生的第一条规则:一切由你自己搞定。
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
歌剧是一个人被背后捅了一刀，他没有死，而是唱歌。
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
在那之前我在肥皂剧里演了三年，我是世界上最好的男人。
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
歌剧，仅次于哥特式建筑，是西方人类最奇怪的发明之一。这是任何逻辑过程都无法预见的。
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
我家的每个人都是艺术家。我父母都是画家，我妈妈是歌剧演员。我从未被告知有其他方式来处理生活。
We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.
我们成了一部伟大的电视歌剧里的长矛手。我们是一场表演的道具。我一直觉得我们应该加入演员公平。
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
如果你把歌剧当作某种总是以某种方式进行的东西来对待，这就是你所得到的。我走近一部歌剧，好像我不知道似的。
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
我爸爸成了一名肥皂剧演员，而我则是肥皂剧中溜冰场的临时演员。我没有试镜。一直都是裙带关系。
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
音乐——尤其是歌剧——是一个过程，只有当它是由热爱合作的人完成的时候，它才能持久或成功。