Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Maybe I should try singing like a man.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.
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'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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.
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
