Aria Quote by Nina Arianda

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming…

— Benjamin Booker

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

— Andris Nelsons

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

— Klaus Nomi

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people…

— Pat Cooper

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

— Emmy Rossum

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level,…

— Andrea Bocelli

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

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the…

— Charles Lamb

When Placido suggested to me that I should sing 'Fedora,' I said that I didn't think so. I thought it was too exaggerated, that…

— Mirella Freni

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

— Steven Weinberg

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz