Opera Quotes

The opera ghost really existed

— Gaston Leroux

I became a set designer for opera.

— Maurice Sendak

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

— Maureen O'Hara

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

— James Gray

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

— Anna Netrebko

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

— Samuel Johnson

Bed is the poor man's opera

— Italian Proverb

I'd like to direct more operas.

— Simon Callow

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

— Ashley Benson

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

— Erik Satie

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

— Jonathan Miller

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

— Anonymous

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

— Parker Posey

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

— Lucy Griffiths

I would love to portray the opera singer Leontyne Price in a film.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more…

— Bruce Beresford

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

— David Markson

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Kassie DePaiva

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

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

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was…

— Ralph Macchio

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So…

— Lizz Wright

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a…

— Beverly Sills

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Isaac Babel

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

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

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Pete Seeger

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

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not…

— Mark Twain

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

— Jake Heggie

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and…

— Brigid Brannagh