Opera Quotes

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

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.

Opera is really fun.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

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

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

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.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

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

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.

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

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

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

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