Robertson Davies Quotes

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

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

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.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I love to conduct opera.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I'm an opera lover.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

In opera, there is always too much singing.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

My degree was in opera.