Opera Quotes · Page 20

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

— Philip Kitcher

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

— Marlene Dietrich

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the…

— Robert Wilson

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

— Bette Midler

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

— Bernard Haitink

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

— James Gray

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

— Andrea Bocelli

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

— George Burns

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted…

— D. H. Lawrence

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians…

— Itay Talgam

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the…

— Jose Carreras

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish,…

— John Lydon

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been…

— Roger Allam

I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to…

— Wayne McGregor

Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot…

— Luciano Pavarotti

Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history…

— Kris Kristofferson

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on…

— Terry Pratchett

First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another…

— Philip Kitcher

Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know…

— Gaston Leroux

The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in…

— Rhiannon Giddens

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

— Nellie Melba

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually…

— Camille Paglia

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

— Lauren Worsham

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

— Rufus Wainwright

“I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts.”

— Joseph Campbell

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

— Ruben Blades

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

— Eric Taylor

My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know…

— Bakermat

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are…

— Anna Netrebko

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

— Luciano Pavarotti

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

— Chester Bennington

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

— Robert Lepage

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

— Bruce Beresford

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina…

— Billie Burke

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

— Julie Bowen