Job Quote by Richard McCabe

I was in Opera house, (SYDNEY)

— Jess Jessenia

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

— Rosamund Pike

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

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

— Nina Arianda

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

— Emmy Rossum

I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!

— Lesley Manville

Almost all my training was from opera singers.

— Susan Tedeschi

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller

My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance…

— Ian Gillan

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

— Danielle de Niese

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

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

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

— Jihae