Quotes About Opera

The Chinese word for yak meant 'hairy cow'. It is a lovely long-haired animal, like a cow on its way to the opera.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

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.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

The captain would...turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.

The thing is I have an inexpressible desire to write an opera again; it would make me so happy because it gives me something to compose which is my real joy and passion (...).

Needleman, k?z?m ve benle beraber Milano'da opera izlerken locadan aÅŸa??ya biraz fazla eÄŸildi ve orkestra çukuruna düÅŸtü. Bir kaza olduÄŸunu kabullenemeyecek kadar gururlu olan Needleman, bir ay boyunca ayn? operaya gitti ve her gece kendini çukura att?.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

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.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.