Lesley Garrett Quotes

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Opera is really fun.

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 would love to sing opera.

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

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

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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

I love to conduct opera.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

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

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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

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.

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.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.