Claude Debussy Quotes

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

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

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I love to conduct opera.

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

Opera is really fun.

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

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

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

I would love to sing opera.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

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.

I love Massenet - 'Manon' had been a wonderful role for me - and the music he wrote for 'Thais' is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.

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

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

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.

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

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.