Opera House Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my…
— Maria Callas
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Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over…
— Ella Fitzgerald
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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera…
— Lesley Garrett
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I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life…
— Maria Callas
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I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
— Bernard Haitink
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I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo…
— Chris Cornell
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In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town…
— Jeffrey Tate
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At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly…
— Deborah Bull
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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to…
— Frank Gehry
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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at…
— Renee Fleming
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow…
— Donna Leon
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It…
— Nana Mouskouri
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I…
— Jo Nesbo
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made…
— Sam Taylor-Wood
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I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
— Rufus Wainwright
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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
— Nik Wallenda
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else…
— Martin Filler
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They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?"…
— Gordon Korman
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The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
— Anna Netrebko
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I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the…
— David Wenham
Who Wrote These Opera House Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Opera House Quotes as follows: