Chamber Quote by Garth Greenwell

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

— Zola Jesus

I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in…

— Jake Heggie

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

— Harrison Birtwistle

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

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

— Rufus Wainwright

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'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

“Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences.…

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Tod Machover

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

— Robert Wilson

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

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor