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 you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
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
Maureen O'Hara 
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
Scott Stapp 
Edward Appleton 
Andrea Bocelli 
Israel Zangwill 
Charles Townshend 
Judy Garland All Opera Quotes
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford 
55% of people like this quote
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
Michael Zaslow
54% of people like this quote
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Luciano Pavarotti
54% of people like this quote
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
Junichiro Koizumi
54% of people like this quote
Popular Opera Authors
Mason CooleyH. L. MenckenDoug CouplandJean de la BruyereWilliam Butler YeatsW. H. Auden MoliereDavid OgilvyGustav MahlerMaureen O'HaraTony CurtisPlacido DomingoFreddie MercuryRobertson DaviesJohn Mellencamp
Ruben BladesJoan CollinsDario ArgentoCarlisle FloydWim WendersCecilia BartoliLindsey BuckinghamNoel CowardGraeme MurphyBruce BeresfordHarrison BirtwistleNana MouskouriJohn Philip SousaWole SoyinkaLuciano Pavarotti
More »