Top Opera Quotes
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Luciano Pavarotti
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Nellie Melba
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey
H. L. Mencken 
Marcel Marceau 
Julie Taymor 
Edward Appleton 
Maureen O'Hara 
Peter Boyle 
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden 
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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
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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
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Bruce Beresford
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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford
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But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
John Eaton
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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioachino Rossini
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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
Wim Wenders
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