Atmosphere Quote by Erik Satie

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but…

— Ambrose Bierce

Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during…

— Jacob Hashimoto

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

— Diane Paulus

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone…

— Beverly Sills

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about…

— Toni Servillo