Quotes About Performance

Opera is really fun.

I want to do rock operas.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I'd like to direct more operas.

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.

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

My degree was in opera.

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

I'm by no means an opera buff.

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.

We did a student-initiated project of 'A Little Night Music', which was the first time that all of the divisions - music, dance, drama, opera - came together and put on a piece. It was a black box kind of feel. We had to get costumes that were pieced together. We had our own lighting that we finagled.

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.

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!

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

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.