Floor Jansen Quotes

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

I love to conduct opera.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

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

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.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I want to do rock operas.

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

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

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

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

I would love to sing opera.

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

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

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

Singing is incredibly physical.

Opera is really fun.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

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

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.