Quotes About Opera

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

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

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

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

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

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

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.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.