Opera Quotes · Page 30

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by…

— Susan Wiggs

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

— Gordon Bethune

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

— Elisabeth Rohm

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced…

— David Sanborn

The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills…

— Johnny Mathis

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

— Neil Young

I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap…

— Paul Wesley

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

— Forest Whitaker

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

— Ian Mckellen

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six…

— Jane Wagner

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being…

— Lesley Manville

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock…

— Klaus Nomi

Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor…

— Sam Pressman

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little…

— George Richard Marek

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

— Beverly Sills

Opera requires singers with exceptional talent and years of rigorous, formal training.

— Jackie Fuchs

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper…

— Giacomo Puccini

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

— Bruce Campbell

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young…

— Anna Netrebko

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

— China Forbes

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

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

— Iris Apfel

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and…

— Arthur Smith