Opera Quotes · Page 11

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

— Anonymous

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel…

— Douglas Adams

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I…

— David Cronenberg

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

— Dan Stevens

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

— C. L. R. James

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…

— Trevor Nunn

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the…

— Karen DeCrow

A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…

— James Fenton

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as…

— Robert Kazinsky

I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the…

— Wu Han

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told…

— Rufus Wainwright

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of…

— Maria Jeritza

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take…

— Yo-Yo Ma

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes…

— Tom Clancy

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work…

— Rufus Wainwright

When Placido suggested to me that I should sing 'Fedora,' I said that I didn't think so. I thought it was too…

— Mirella Freni

I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't…

— Dustin Hoffman

During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more…

— Larry Gelbart

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

— Ian Mckellen

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my…

— Kate Winslet

“Noche de Opera promises a magical, emotional and moving evening at San Diego Opera for opening night of Don Quixote 4-5-14”

— Lidia S. Martinez Southwest Airlines

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.

— Famke Janssen

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for…

— Ledisi

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

— Clive Rowe

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

— Garth Greenwell

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera… Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back…

— Peter Stormare

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my…

— John Tiffany

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance…

— Maya Angelou

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my…

— Freddie Mercury