Opera Quotes

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.