Opera Quotes

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.

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.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

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

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

The opera ghost really existed

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!