I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.
Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
You can't get down and dirty at the opera.
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.
Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.
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.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful music. For me, there's nothing like listening to a beautiful opera sometimes - on a record or seeing it live - just to be sleepy and let those beautiful voices take me somewhere I've never been before.
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
