Also Quote by Gian Carlo Menotti

I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good voices, excellent…

— Michael Portillo

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music…

— William Bolcom

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

— Rudolf Bing

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more…

— Andrea Bocelli

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 a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

— Robert Lepage

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

— Christoph Waltz

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly…

— Simon McBurney

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is…

— Renee Fleming

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

— Roger Allam