Agree Quote by Bertrand Russell

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

— Gioachino Rossini

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

— Beverly Sills

The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when…

— Richard Bonynge

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

— Barbara Sukowa

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage…

— Laurence Equilbey

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

— Claude Debussy

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered…

— Rudolf Bing

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level,…

— Andrea Bocelli

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly…

— Simon McBurney

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role,…

— Maria Jeritza

I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

— Bruno Sammartino