Am Quote by Anna Netrebko

In a time when directors did not fear composers with a strong voice, Morricone wrote scores like operas or symphonies, with passion, scope, bravura…

— Alexandre Desplat

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most…

— Philip Pullman

The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play…

— Constant Lambert

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