Quote by Charles Townshend

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you…

— Rufus Wainwright

I like to spend several months at least in a particular opera house.

— Mirella Freni

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

— Michael Ball

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

— Tarja Turunen

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

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

Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a…

— Stana Katic

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because…

— Richard Bonynge

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

— Bernard Haitink

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

— Renee Fleming