Opera Quotes

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Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

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

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

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

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

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

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

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.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

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

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.