Opera Quotes
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I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.
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Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
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I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
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They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
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The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should “just say no” to opera, and that it’s always wise to diversify your investment portfolio.
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When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.
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I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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NOBODY LIKES a riot except looters and journalists. The Metropolitan Police, being the go-ahead and dynamic modern police service that it is, has any number of contingency plans for dealing with civil disturbance. From farmers with truckloads of manure to suburban anarchists on a weekend break and Saturday jihadists. What I suspect they didn’t have plans for was just over two thousand enraged opera lovers pouring out of the Royal Opera House and going on a mad rampage through Covent Garden.
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I don't like rock opera with back beats.
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Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
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Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.
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Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
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In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
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My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
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Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
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Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.
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I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
