Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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

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

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

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I love to conduct opera.

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

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

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

I'm an opera lover.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

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.

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

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.

I would love to sing opera.