Cab Calloway Quotes

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I love to conduct opera.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

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

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

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of game makers want challenge themselves with 'can I move someone?' or 'can I get them to respect me as an artist?'

But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.