To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
[Longer introduction to "The Nutcracker Suite"] Narrator: You know, it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work. The one composition of Tchaikovsky's that he really detested was his "Nutcracker Suite", which is probably the most popular ...
A house full of people is a house full of different points of view.
I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.
In opera, there is always too much singing.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.
