Susanna Phillips Quotes

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

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

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

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

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

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

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

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

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

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

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 wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.