I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.
It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
An operatic voice is like no other.
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?