Composer Quote by Cecilia Bartoli

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of…

— Cecilia Bartoli

My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical…

— Bakermat

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as…

— Jonny Greenwood

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

“But the maestro’s biggest project during the second half of the season was the first North American production of Paul Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-bleue,…

— Harvey Sachs

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's…

— Stewart Copeland

“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson