Opera Quotes - page 3

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. (Gian Carlo Menotti)

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Maureen O'Hara

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Aleksa Palladino

Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Anna Netrebko

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Anthony Davis

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Bobby Short

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Bruce Beresford

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Bruce Beresford

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.

Bruce Beresford

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)

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Bruce Beresford

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

Barry Bostwick

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Cecilia Bartoli

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Cheryl Mendelson

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Carlisle Floyd

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.

Carlisle Floyd

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Carlisle Floyd

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

Carlisle Floyd

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

David Wenham

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Dorothy Malone

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Dario Argento

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Edward Victor Appleton

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.

Gordon Getty

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