Quotes About Opera

There, up in the sky, she noticed for the first time a gigantic mounded cloud, as large and elaborately moulded as a baroque opera house and lit from below and at the sides by pink and creamy hues. It sailed beyond her, improbable and romantic, following in the blue sky the course she was taking down below. It seemed to her that it must be a good omen.

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera.

Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.

Would you be shocked? she asked him. If you ate your lunch? I might be. If my mother was an opera dancer. On the contrary. I'd be delighted. He looked up and smiled at her expression. Come now, Miss Makepeace. Very little shocks me. Except the word 'wife,' she said tartly.

You have no shame for ruining my shoes, nyet ? If it weren't so difficult to replace shoes here in the middle of nowhere, I would let you stomp on the tops of all of them, but such is not the case. If they are ruined, I must go without. A barefoot prince? That sounds like a bad Italian opera.

But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

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

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

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