Opera Quotes - Page 5

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

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Firsts, Career Success

  1925 Melodies and Memories.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Tragedy, Germany

  7 Copy quote

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  Dan Stevens

  Fun, Hate, Dirty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Beautiful, Memories, House

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Beverly Sills

  Long, Listening, Remember

  Newsweek, Volume 103, p. 4, 1984.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Interesting, Musical, Soap

  8 Copy quote

• ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Names

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Years, Long

  31 Copy quote

• I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

  Rick Moranis

  Country, Rocks, Listening

  11 Copy quote

• Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

  Wim Wenders

  Money, Example, Dresses

  65 Copy quote

• In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Wind, Play, Intellectual

  7 Copy quote

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

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Firsts, Composer

  47 Copy quote

• It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

  Bruce Beresford

  Music, Art, Drama

  47 Copy quote

• The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

  Maria Jeritza

  Lying, Real, Singing

  44 Copy quote

• An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

  Gustav Mahler

  Gay

  9 Copy quote

• 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 opera.

  Trevor Nunn

  Feelings, Musical, Theater

  16 Copy quote

• I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

  Bernard Haitink

  Thinking, House, Opera House

  "Haitink lays down operatic baton on his 75th birthday". Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

  Joe Lando

  Aggravation, Choices, Soap

  9 Copy quote

• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fog, Car, Upholstery

  8 Copy quote

• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Singers

  349 Copy quote

• If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

  Gaston Leroux

  Men, Hatred, Phantoms

  53 Copy quote

• The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

  Mark Twain

  Belief, Banging

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Pay, Faces

  "Fictional character: Otis B. Driftwood". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Music, Sound, Sound And Music

  8 Copy quote