Opera House Quotes

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.

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of those seemingly ethereal beings who floated about in the highest echelons of musical accomplishment, effortlessly producing virtuoso performances in several different languages.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

I'd really like to go Sydney. I've been to Australia a few times, but I have never been there.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

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

When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

The Opera House guidelines have from time to time been amended, whether it's for other sporting events or other causes. The guidelines have always been stretched in the part and the commercialisation of the Opera House has always been there.

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.