Opera Quotes

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.

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.

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.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

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.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.