Style Quote by Iris Apfel

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

— Iris Apfel

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

— Zack Snyder

Opera requires singers with exceptional talent and years of rigorous, formal training.

— Jackie Fuchs

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera,…

— Katherine Jenkins

I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and…

— Simon Helberg

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

— Neil Young

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but…

— Luciano Pavarotti

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed…

— Alex Winston

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art…

— Bruce Beresford

I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph