(274 quotes found)
“A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
Robertson Davies
“We were born with baseball in our blood. It's more than just a sport. It's a passion. It's an opera. It's just a way of being. It's almost like breathing.”
Omar Minaya
“Basically the first half-hour of the opera is an extended prologue, which is all material from the first two weeks of July 1945, ... Germany has just capitulated. Truman is meeting Stalin at Potsdam, which is where all this pressure comes from for the test to work. Oppenheimer has been in these meetings in Washington to select the target, and it's full steam ahead to Japan.”
Peter Sellars
“Baseball plays out like an opera,”
Paul Dickson
“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
“I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.”
Ford Frick
“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
“It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.”
Bryan Adams
“If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.”
“Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.”
W. GIFFORD-JONES
