Opera Quotes - page 13

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera. (Nina Arianda)
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since. View quote
Owen Benjamin
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters. View quote
Peter Mullan
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. View quote
Rick Moranis
I want to get out of the major opera houses. View quote
Renee Fleming
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. View quote
Renee Fleming
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. View quote
Renee Fleming
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. View quote
Renee Fleming
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. View quote
Renee Fleming
My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.' View quote
Shirley Eaton
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. (Skylar Grey)
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. View quote
Stefano Langone
As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career. View quote
Susanna Phillips
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films. View quote
Sam Taylor-Wood
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. View quote
Sam Waterston
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. View quote
Sarah Caldwell
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. View quote
Sarah Caldwell
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing. View quote
Tika Sumpter
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera. View quote
Tod Machover
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. View quote
Tom Wopat
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. (Toni Servillo)
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path. View quote
Tony Hale
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better. View quote
Troy Polamalu
I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. View quote
Tyne Daly
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!' View quote
Teddy Sears