Classic Opera Quotes

#1. They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Michael Zaslow

#2. Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

Margaret Foley

#3. Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

Robert Wilson

#4. You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

Liza Minnelli

#5. I don't like this, Artemis. I'm not a dog to be chained outside your house because you're afraid I'll piss on your rug. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Laurie Anderson

#7. That erasure was the gift I gave myself.

Alissa Nutting

#8. I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

#9. I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

Howard Shore