Opera Quotes

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.