Conservatory Quote by Garth Greenwell

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

— Kelli O'Hara

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

— Jane McDonald

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That…

— Kristine Opolais

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I…

— Rick Nielsen

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

— Madonna Ciccone

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 would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

— Bruno Sammartino

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

— Lele Pons

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

— Jihae

There was a time in my life when I'd only sing. In my initial years, I didn't ever speak on stage, forget acting. Eventually,…

— Diljit Dosanjh

I wanted to be an opera singer since I was a very little girl.

— Nico