Opera Quotes - page 12

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. (John Mellencamp)
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. View quote
John Philip Sousa
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. View quote
Johnny Mathis
But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good. View quote
Jon Lovitz
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. View quote
Jacqueline Novogratz
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it. View quote
Joyce DiDonato
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. View quote
Jaime Winstone
Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute. View quote
Kiri Te Kanawa
I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall. View quote
Katherine Jenkins
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. View quote
Kelli O'Hara
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. (Ledisi)
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going. View quote
Mark Morris
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
Music and opera are a big part of my life. View quote
Ailyn Perez
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress. View quote
Bar Paly
The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera. View quote
Charles Nelson Reilly
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. View quote
John Eaton
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world. View quote
John Eaton
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that. View quote
Lauren Worsham
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. View quote
Lauren Worsham
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed. (Martin Filler)
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. View quote
Melinda Clarke
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. View quote
Michael Weatherly
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. View quote
Mordechai Vanunu
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that. View quote
Nina Arianda