Tarja Turunen Quotes

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

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

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

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.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

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

I would love to sing opera.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

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

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

I'm an opera lover.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.