Needs Quote by Franz Liszt

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

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right…

— Jose Carreras

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

— Robert Wilson

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

— David Ogden Stiers

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

— Tod Machover

To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Roger Allam

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

— Ibn Warraq

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

— Sarah Sutton