Opera Quotes · Page 10

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

— Loretta Chase

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

— Andrea Bocelli

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

— Ned Rorem

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

— Melinda Clarke

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

— Robin Gibb

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Nina Hagen

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

— Ruskin Bond

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

— Robert Lepage

“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name…

— Gaston Leroux

“Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter!”

— Paisley Swan Stewart

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

— Parker Posey

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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 you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything…

— Nathan Fillion

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in…

— Lisa Randall

It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at…

— Philip Glass

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But…

— Gaston Leroux

Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed…

— Astra Taylor

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very…

— Catherine Deneuve

I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and…

— Pamela Anderson

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it…

— Kaija Saariaho

I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

“... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me…

— Gaston Leroux

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

— Renee Fleming

“I like your opera - I think I will set it to music”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

— Andris Nelsons

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

— Stefano Langone

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

— Placido Domingo