Opera Quotes

551 quotes by 411 authors

I don't like rock opera with back beats. — Robin Gibb
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didnâ€™t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. — Kelli O'Hara
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. — Carlisle Floyd
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to… — Carlisle Floyd
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. — Carlisle Floyd
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues… — Carlisle Floyd
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it… — Giacomo Puccini
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in… — Luciano Pavarotti
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music… — Kris Kristofferson
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. — Bernard Haitink
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. — Steven-Elliot Altman
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. — Dan Stevens
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and… — William Devane
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. — Dario Argento
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a… — Gioachino Rossini

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