Quotes About Art

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Opera is really fun.

I want to do rock operas.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

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'.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

I love to conduct opera.

My degree was in opera.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

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

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

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 think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

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.