Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

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.

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

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

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

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 love to conduct opera.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

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

I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the floor - I heard Pavarotti in Tosca there, and the experience of being in that same room with that astonishing voice has never left me.

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.

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

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

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

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've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

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

Music and opera are a big part of my life.