Benjamin Britten Quotes

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

I love to conduct opera.

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.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

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.

Opera is really fun.

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

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

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

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

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

I'm an opera lover.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

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

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.