Opera Quotes · Page 20

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home…

— Roger Allam

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

— Robert Lepage

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera…

— George Brandis

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal,…

— Marcus du Sautoy

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the…

— Lesley Garrett

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I…

— John Adams

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera…

— R. Kelly

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'…

— Karen DeCrow

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

“... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me…

— Gaston Leroux

I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're…

— Jake Heggie

What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but…

— Mark Millar

I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and…

— Pamela Anderson

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it…

— Kaija Saariaho

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

— Gaston Leroux

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides…

— Marcel Marceau

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

— Jose Jose

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

— Jaime Winstone

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any…

— Kenneth Clark

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a…

— Nina Arianda

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love…

— Sarah Caldwell

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

— Jencarlos Canela

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and…

— Method Man

I wanted to be an opera singer, but the discipline needed to maintain a healthy voice and that was not for me.

— Bridget Everett

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

— Anthony Geary

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

— Alexandre Desplat

“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the…

— George Bernard Shaw

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen