Opera Quotes

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

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

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

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

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

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.

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

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

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

I want to do rock operas.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

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

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

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.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.