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In opera, there is always too much singing.

— Claude Debussy

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

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

— Jon Lovitz

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

— Andris Nelsons

Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.

— Anonymous

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

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

— H. L. Mencken

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but…

— Ambrose Bierce

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed…

— Alex Winston

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

— Erik Satie

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino