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.
Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.
To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
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.
When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.
When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.
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 love to sing. I'm a soprano.
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.
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.
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
