Opera Quotes · Page 9

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

— Gustav Mahler

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

— Dario Argento

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

— Moliere

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

— Michael Ball

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

— Judy Garland

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

— Danielle de Niese

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

— Anonymous

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

— Michael Giacchino

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the…

— John Lone

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his…

— Anonymous

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

— Sophie Thompson

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

— Alexa Vega

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

— Sam Waterston

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

— Elie Wiesel

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

— Robert Davi

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

— Melvyn Bragg

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a…

— Bruce Beresford

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,…

— Steve Martin

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

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors,…

— Simon McBurney

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I…

— Jo Nesbo

My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as…

— Lord Harewood

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you…

— Judith Martin

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like…

— Aristotle Onassis

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of…

— Ann Patchett

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find…

— Pete Seeger

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table…

— Oliver Sacks

I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and…

— Brigid Brannagh

The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see…

— Jackie Evancho

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working…

— Willie Nelson

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas…

— Robert Ashley

“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it…

— David Ebershoff

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

— H. L. Mencken

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

— Dorothy Malone

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

— Carlisle Floyd

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

— Irvin S. Cobb

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

— Steven Berkoff

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

— John Eaton

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

— Mariah Carey

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

— Sylvie Guillem