Roger Allam Quotes

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

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

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

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

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

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

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

I like to sing the songs people love, like 'Impossible Dream.'

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

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

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

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

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I love to conduct opera.

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

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

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

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it.

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