Quotes of: Opera Keyword

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

James Stephens

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

James Gray

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Luciano Pavarotti

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

Barry Bostwick

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

Peter Boyle

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Renee Fleming

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Renee Fleming

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Robert Gottlieb

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Karen DeCrow

I became a set designer for opera.

Maurice Sendak

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

David Rubenstein

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Gian Carlo Menotti

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Kevin Spacey

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Bobby Short

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Harrison Birtwistle

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Jaime Winstone

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

Stefano Langone

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Don Rickles

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

Israel Horovitz