When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer. . . The people I loved were a little different.
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
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.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.
I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
I would love to sing opera.