Gemma Arterton Quotes

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great 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.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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

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

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

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

Opera is really fun.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

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

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

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

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 liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

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