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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

— Zack Snyder

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

— Roger Allam

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

— Andris Nelsons

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

— Tim O'Reilly

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

— Jose Carreras

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 beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to…

— James Gray

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

— Robert Lepage

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're…

— Charles Nelson Reilly

I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making…

— Tony Bennett