Victoria de los Angeles Quotes

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

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

I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

When I got into college, I got into operatic vocalists, like Leontyne Price.

Even before Pentatonix, I always thought that I would be out here in New York doing Broadway and doing musical theater. That was what gave me the passion for music in the first place, so it's been really, really, cool.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.