Slavoj Zizek Quotes

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

I'm an opera lover.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

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

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

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

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

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

My degree was in opera.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

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

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.