Opera Quotes · Page 3

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

— Zola Jesus

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

— Gregory Peck

Almost all my training was from opera singers.

— Susan Tedeschi

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

— Carlos Carvalhal

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

— David Rubenstein

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

— Michael Ball

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

— Sophie Thompson

Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have…

— Rouben Mamoulian

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of…

— Maria Karnilova

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

— Gilbert Gottfried

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

— Samuel Wilberforce

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

— John Eaton

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam…

— Steven-Elliot Altman

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

— John Mellencamp

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

— Jessa Crispin

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's…

— Cecilia Bartoli

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along…

— Raymond Bonner

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized…

— Ian Somerhalder

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at…

— Johnny Mathis

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back…

— Jessie Reyez

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is.…

— Cab Calloway

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a…

— David Hume

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

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

— Gaston Leroux

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words…

— James Fenton

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8…

— Bette Midler

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person…

— Megan Mullally

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

— Kiersten White

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

— Fred Willard

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

— Claude Debussy

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

— Greta Gerwig

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

— Joel Kinnaman

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

— Victor Hugo

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

— Klaus Nomi