Opera Quotes · Page 16

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm…

— Benjamin Booker

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

— Anthony Davis

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

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Rufus Wainwright

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

The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it,…

— Frank Grillo

The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of…

— Ann Widdecombe

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays…

— Brittany Murphy

When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and…

— Jason Graae

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or…

— David Sanborn

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,…

— Anonymous

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited…

— A. A. Gill

The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,…

— John Derbyshire

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an…

— Giancarlo Esposito

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

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual…

— Camille Paglia

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

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

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

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

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

— Nellie Melba

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

— Bobby Short

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the…

— Anna Kendrick

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

— Jane McDonald

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

I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

— Tod Machover

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

— Julie Bowen

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

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

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Bruce Beresford

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