Kristine Opolais Quotes

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

'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 decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

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

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

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

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

I love to conduct opera.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.