Quotes About Opera

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

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.

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

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.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I love to conduct opera.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!