Opera Quotes
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Opera Quotes & Sayings
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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
— Barry Bostwick
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
— Garth Greenwell
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
— Samuel Wilberforce
The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
Snarling like a chainsaw trying to sing opera
— Seanan McGuire
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
— Placido Domingo
Tea, opera and poetry should not be missed - longevity depends on one's mental cultivation.
— Anchee Min
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy.
— Jeff MacNelly
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.
— Garth Greenwell
Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that ... shite.
— Dylan Moran
To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words.
— Bernardine Evaristo
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
— Robert Gottlieb
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
— Rachel Tucker
A Man lives off his head.His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ... — Bertolt Brecht
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
— Noel Coward
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
— Franco Zeffirelli
I became a set designer for opera.
— Maurice Sendak
My life is a soap opera.
— C.E. Starkweather
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
— Bruce Beresford
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
— Israel Horovitz
Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes
— Riley Amos Westbrook
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
— Harrison Birtwistle
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!
— Gaston Leroux
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.
— Kristin Chenoweth
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
— W. H. Auden
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
— Douglas Coupland
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
— Lauren Worsham
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.
— Andrea Bocelli
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
— Georges Bizet
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
— Alan Hirsch
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.
— Bruce Beresford
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
— David Cronenberg
Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
— Chris Lowe
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
— John Irving
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
— Sarah Caldwell
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
— Ledisi
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
— Stefano Langone
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
— Maria Karnilova
I love to conduct opera.
— Zubin Mehta
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
— Bill Dedman
Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri
I see a symphony - and sometimes a grand opera - of elements that can be coordinated and harmonized to create a fantastic and memorable experience.
— Marc J. Sievers
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
— Katherine Jenkins
I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
— Gemma Arterton
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri
I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
— John Marshall
At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.
— Terry Teachout
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
— Gordon Bethune
I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now. -Luciana — Susan Kay
I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
— John Patrick Shanley
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
— Maurice Sendak
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
— Alan Dershowitz
War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?
— Kameron Hurley
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
— Dorothy Malone
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?
— Alexander Chee
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
— Bruce Springsteen
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
— Richard H. Davis
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
— Mason Cooley
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
— Sandra Bullock
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
— Danielle De Niese
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean De La Bruyere
