Opera Quotes

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

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.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

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.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

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.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

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

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

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.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every day.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!