Quotes About Opera

A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season.

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.