Opera Quotes

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

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

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

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.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

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

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

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 you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

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