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Opera Quotes

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Love Music Writing Voice Opera

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Placido Domingo

Money Performance More Opera Concert

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Love Eyes Stupid Fat Watching Opera

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Wind Book Glory Memorable Opera

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Say Opera Singer Being Ideal Means

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Home Truth You Listen Never Opera

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

Kristine Opolais

Rock Never Opera Singer Actress

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool. When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

People Cool World Opera Fans Soap

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Play Audience Opera Pay Wonderful

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

Always Opera Soap Wanted Soap Opera

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

Music Country Hip-Hop Listen Opera

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

People Enjoy Will Opera Spy Expect

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Listen Opera Turn Little iPod

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

Me Loved Never Write Always Opera

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

People Become Judgment Opera Happen

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Music Violin Opera Piano Sacred His

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

Passion Voice Two Opera Things Sing

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

Training Blood Three Actor Opera

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love Simple Opera Phantom About

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

Sick Opera Days Soap Only Use

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

Life You Lights Plans Opera Own

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

Mind Language Long Understand Opera

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

Hell You Want Opera Been Singers

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

Singing Think Never Opera Carry

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