I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini…

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

— Virgil Thomson

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

— Werner Herzog

The public wants real horse operas with action, not a lot of laughs.

— Robert Fuller

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 think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from…

— Ronald Frame

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

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I…

— Ezra Miller

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

— Lucy Griffiths

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…

— Karen DeCrow

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

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

I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thought soap…

— Britt Robertson

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