Cab Calloway Quotes

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I would love to sing 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.

Opera is really fun.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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 to conduct opera.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

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

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

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

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

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

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

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

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.

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

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.