Karen DeCrow Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Opera is really fun.

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'd like to direct more operas.

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

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

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

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

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

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.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

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

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.