Sarah Caldwell Quotes

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

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

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

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

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Opera is really fun.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

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

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

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

'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.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

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 cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

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

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

I'd like to direct more operas.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.