Top 1200 Opera Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 11
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Last updated on October 16, 2024.
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.
I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.
WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.
It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept. What about the other three artists?
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued at the end of a phrase - the amount of respect I have for singers!
Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos
Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.
In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.
Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.
Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'
