In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place…

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

— Bruce Beresford

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right…

— Jose Carreras

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides…

— Billy Taylor

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a…

— Giuseppe Verdi

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

— Carlisle Floyd

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.

— Ron Mael

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from…

— Dario Argento

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

— Werner Herzog

I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in…

— Jake Heggie

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for…

— Andrea Bocelli

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to…

— Mark Twain

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

— Lucy Griffiths

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

— Rufus Wainwright

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,'…

— Karen DeCrow

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my…

— Franz Liszt