Quotes About Opera

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

La dictadura es como una aria y nunca llega a ser ópera.

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

Opal Koboi does not make plans; she writes operas.

All men are good at exit lines," Harriette said as she removed her opera glass from her beaded reticule. "They use them so frequently, you know. It seems they are always walking out. Off to school, off to war, off to their clubs, or off to their mistresses." Sophy considered that briefly. "I'd say it was not so much a case of walking out as it is of running away.

The role of cinema here is not that of a servant nor is it to betray the painting. Rather it is to provide it with a new form of existence. The film of a painting is an aesthetic symbiosis of screen and painting, as is the lichen of the algae and mushroom. To be annoyed by this is as ridiculous as to condemn the opera on behalf of theater and music.

A few days later we went to the opera together to watch my beloved Siegfried. It was a pleasure for me to listen to it beside the man who had become my hero.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health and well-being it's very important that the arts scene is supported.

I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then, having left school shortly after my GCSEs, I auditioned for the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as well as the Welsh National Youth Opera. I ended up getting into all three.

I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

My tastes are Viennese.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

And then he burned down the opera house," Miranda whispered. "He burned down the Rose." Ashley's gaze misted over. "Both Roses. He destroyed both Roses." For a long moment, they all seemed lost in their own thoughts. Then Parker spoke up. "Yeah." Tilting his chair back, he winked at Gage and Etienne. "That's the way to a girl's heart, all right. Give her poison, then burn down her house.

In the evening we went to the opera to see 'The Little Minister'. It was good but not nearly so good as the book. I don't care for dramatized novels. They always jar on my preconceptions of the characters.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

The grandeur of the opera house thrilled Laura too. It took thousand of employees to keep such a vast place running. There were hundreds of artists involved behind the scenes - stagehands, electricians, set builders, property masters, costumers, dressers, wigmakers, and milliners. There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan, thought Enza.

One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured. Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore, they become highly sensitive.