Art Quote by Beverly Sills

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 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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

— Claude Debussy

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice…

— Junichiro Koizumi

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts,…

— Andrea Bocelli

Opera requires singers with exceptional talent and years of rigorous, formal training.

— Jackie Fuchs

“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

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

An operatic voice is like no other.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Andris Nelsons