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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

— Anthony Davis

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, one of my roommates my freshman year was a big opera fan. I had seen some…

— Stephen Schwartz

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

— Virgil Thomson

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote…

— Stephen Schwartz

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

— Maurice Sendak

I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And no matter…

— Stephen Schwartz

I love to conduct opera.

— Zubin Mehta

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates…

— Robert Lepage

I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

— Tod Machover