Deep Quote by Andrea Bocelli

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music…

— William Bolcom

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many…

— Susanna Phillips

Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during…

— Jacob Hashimoto

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is…

— Renee Fleming

People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love…

— J. F. Lawton