Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Robert Benchley

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Robert Benchley

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

Maria Karnilova

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Mark Morris

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

John Philip Sousa

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

Eli Broad

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Stewart Copeland

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

Kassie DePaiva

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

Ford Frick

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Cecilia Bartoli

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

Graeme Murphy

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

John Mellencamp

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

John Patrick Shanley

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

Charlotte Rae

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

Katherine Jenkins

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

Azzedine Alaia

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

Andrea Bocelli

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Anthony Geary

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

Bruce Beresford

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

Bill Dedman

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

Wang Leehom