The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. — Maria Jeritza
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini
In opera, there is always too much singing. — Claude Debussy
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. — Lesley Garrett
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. — Giuseppe Verdi
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H. L. Mencken
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. — Moliere
It is impossible to perform the opera without La Girò because it is impossible to find another prima donna of her caliber. — Antonio Vivaldi
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. — Sayings
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. — Josh Groban
After so many maneuvers and a great many toils the opera is now ruined. — Antonio Vivaldi
Short Opera Singers Quotes
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. — Carlisle Floyd
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. — Wim Wenders
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick the Great
Those who wish to sing always find a song. — Swedish Proverbs
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. — Maria Callas
When a woman is not singing, she is not working much either. — Egyptian Proverbs
Opera Music Quotes
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. — Lesley Garrett
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. — Cecilia Bartoli
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. — Richard Wagner
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me. — Rick Owens
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. — Rick Riordan
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem. — Yves Saint Laurent
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. — Dave Barry
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera. — Luciano Pavarotti
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing. — Florence Foster Jenkins
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? — Victor Borge
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. — Robert Breault
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. — Tony Curtis
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer." — Gloria Steinem
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. — Bryn Terfel
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. — Robert Breault
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer. — James Fenton
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. — Mariah Carey
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it. — Bryn Terfel
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. — Melinda Clarke
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place. — Lucy Lawless
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. — Luciano Pavarotti
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. — Junichiro Koizumi
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. — Placido Domingo
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that. — Nina Arianda
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. — Andy Grove
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! — Gaston Leroux
I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine. — Simon Helberg
One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. — Pat Cooper
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer. — Sandra Bernhard
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. — Adam Johnson
Lots of opera singers are just boring. — Anna Netrebko
I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil. — Nina Hagen
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. — Emmy Rossum
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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. — Cab Calloway
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. — Diane Kruger
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. — Johnny Mathis
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family. — Matt Snell
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different. — FKA twigs
I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting. — Robert Davi
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory. — Sandra Bullock
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band. — Patti Smith
I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer. — Carl Gardner
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven. — Dustin Hoffman
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. — Rudolf Bing
I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is. — Klaus Nomi
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. — Renee Fleming
I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual. — Brigid Brannagh
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