Grand Opera Quotes

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

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.

Opera is really fun.

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.

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

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

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

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

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

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

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

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

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

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

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.

An operatic voice is like no other.

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.

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

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'