Top Opera Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Opera quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Thomas Beecham
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
- Thomas Beecham
Collection: Opera
Image of Gordon Bethune
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
- Gordon Bethune
Collection: Opera
Image of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Collection: Opera
Image of Virginia Graham
I am a living soap opera.
- Virginia Graham
Collection: Opera
Image of Dick Motta
The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings.
- Dick Motta
Collection: Opera
Image of Ashley Benson
I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.
- Ashley Benson
Collection: Opera
Image of Hugh Griffith
What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?
- Hugh Griffith
Collection: Opera
Image of Eve Best
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
- Eve Best
Collection: Opera
Image of Nina Hagen
I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
- Nina Hagen
Collection: Opera
Image of Stefan Kanfer
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
- Stefan Kanfer
Collection: Opera
Image of Eric Taylor
Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
- Eric Taylor
Collection: Opera
Image of Katherine Shindle
I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.
- Katherine Shindle
Collection: Opera
Image of Garth Greenwell
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.
- Garth Greenwell
Collection: Opera
Image of Elizabeth Bowen
Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.
- Elizabeth Bowen
Collection: Opera
Image of Mark Twain
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
- Mark Twain
Collection: Opera
Image of Kiersten White
Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
- Kiersten White
Collection: Opera
Image of Ilona Andrews
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.
- Ilona Andrews
Collection: Opera
Image of Josh Lanyon
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
- Josh Lanyon
Collection: Opera
Image of Gaston Leroux
The opera ghost really existed
- Gaston Leroux
Collection: Opera
Image of Gaston Leroux
We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
- Gaston Leroux
Collection: Opera
Image of Loretta Chase
Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.
- Loretta Chase
Collection: Opera
Image of Slavoj Žižek
The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.
- Slavoj Žižek
Collection: Opera
Image of David Cronenberg
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
- David Cronenberg
Collection: Opera
Image of Marlene Dietrich
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
- Marlene Dietrich
Collection: Opera
Image of Don DeLillo
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
- Don DeLillo
Collection: Opera
Image of Jasper Fforde
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
- Jasper Fforde
Collection: Opera
Image of Kelli O'Hara
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
- Kelli O'Hara
Collection: Opera
Image of Ester Dean
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
- Ester Dean
Collection: Opera
Image of John Irving
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
- John Irving
Collection: Opera
Image of Victor Hugo
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Opera
Image of Robert Davi
I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.
- Robert Davi
Collection: Opera