I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
Cecilia Bartoli

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
Bryn Terfel

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
Cab Calloway

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
John Eaton

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

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Ruben Blades

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
Robert Ashley

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
Melinda Clarke

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
Ray Liotta

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Dorothy Malone

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler Yeats

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
Lesley Garrett

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

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.
Julie Taymor

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

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.
Doug Coupland

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Sarah Caldwell

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell