opera quotes

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with ‚Porgy and Bess,‘ the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It’s called ‚Scalia/Ginsburg.‘ The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

An operatic voice is like no other.