Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

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.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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

The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big opera. I want a lot of people on stage, elephants and marching stuff, and the modern stuff I don't care for.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

My degree was in opera.

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

I toured with Andrea Bocelli, went to London to do a show for a year in the West End.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

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

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.