Opera Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

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.

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.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

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.

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

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

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

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

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

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.