I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call….

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on..

I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices..

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany..

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment..

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil..

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music..

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations..

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable..

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

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera..

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 o….

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff..

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed..

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know….

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner..

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible..

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation..

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet..

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it..

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