Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

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

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

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

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

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.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.

Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.

I love singing as much as I love acting.

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

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.