Wim Wenders Quotes

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

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

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.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

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.

I would love to sing opera.

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

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

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

'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.

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

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

Opera is really fun.

The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I love to conduct opera.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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

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

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

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.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.