Art Quote by Kristine Opolais

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

— Kristine Opolais

I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working.

— Kristine Opolais

I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais.

— Kristine Opolais

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

— Kristine Opolais

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We…

— Kristine Opolais

I am not playing on stage. I am living the situation. I cannot cut emotions and sing. I never save myself.

— Kristine Opolais

When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything she felt:…

— Kristine Opolais

The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you…

— Kristine Opolais

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere…

— Kristine Opolais

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

— Kristine Opolais

Maybe I will end up in the movies.

— Kristine Opolais

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

— Kristine Opolais