Robert Lepage Quotes

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

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

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

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 love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

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

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

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

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

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season.

I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.

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

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

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.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.