Opera Quotes

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

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.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

I would love to sing opera.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

I became a set designer for opera.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.