Susanna Phillips Quotes

I love to conduct opera.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

I would love to sing opera.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

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

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

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

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

I've always loved to sing.

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I have always loved singing.

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

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

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

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

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

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

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.

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.

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

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

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.