A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
歌剧
Opera
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
肥皂剧似乎是一个肮脏的词，但实际上它们是我们最受欢迎的节目。
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
以歌剧为例——要去看歌剧，你必须穿燕尾服，付很多钱。
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
导演歌剧与导演戏剧相似。演唱不能妨碍戏剧的发展。
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
我天生就不是当歌剧演员的料，但对一个在斯大林时代的匈牙利长大的青少年来说，这是一个美好的梦想。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
人们认为顶级歌手的薪酬过高，但歌剧院的收费很高，这是一件好事。当然音乐会是不同的——每个人都想赚尽可能多的钱。
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
我想那只是一场歌剧。现在，你去看歌剧，你希望看到和听到歌剧是什么。所以，这是鲶鱼排。这是歌手。不可思议的声音。它们是什么颜色都没有关系。
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
我想离开主要的歌剧院。
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。
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。
I don't like rock opera with back beats.
我不喜欢有节奏的摇滚歌剧。
Opera is really fun.
歌剧真的很有趣。