I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music..
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….
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!.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles..
Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage..
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford….
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed..
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..
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling..
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..
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going..
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is..
I don't like rock opera with back beats..
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..
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet..
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate..
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a ….
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 - ….
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic..
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it..
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi..