Opera Quotes

The opera ghost really existed

— Gaston Leroux

I love to conduct opera.

— Zubin Mehta

I was in Opera house, (SYDNEY)

— Jess Jessenia

I became a set designer for opera.

— Maurice Sendak

Opera has made me consider suicide.

— Fred Willard

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I want to do rock operas.

— Corey Feldman

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

— Erik Satie

“snarling like a chainsaw trying to sing opera”

— Seanan McGuire

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

— Andris Nelsons

I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

— Jennifer Garner

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

— Anonymous

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

— Jonathan Miller

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

— Kassie DePaiva

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and…

— David Harewood

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to…

— Ludovic Halévy

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made…

— Jean Anouilh

Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the…

— Rory Bremner

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same…

— Dustin Hoffman

For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra…

— Isaac Babel

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera…

— R. Kelly

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your…

— Michael Ventura

18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian…

— Roger Scruton

In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it…

— George Pelecanos

I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's…

— Jake Heggie

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had…

— Anais Nin

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of…

— Ann Patchett

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find…

— Pete Seeger

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table…

— Oliver Sacks

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My…

— Mercedes Ruehl

Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The…

— Robert Burns