Composer Quote by Kristine Opolais Download Open image “Puccini is my favorite composer.” — Kristine Opolais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Favorite
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am not playing on stage. I am living the situation. I cannot cut emotions and sing. I never save myself. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me.… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
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