City Quote by Gian Carlo Menotti

Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a…

— Stana Katic

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call…

— Trevor Nunn

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.

— Helene Yorke

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it…

— Annie Wersching

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

— Tom Stoppard

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

— Dave Malloy

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

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and…

— Robert Lepage

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started…

— Robert Ashley

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it…

— Jeffrey Tate

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

— Sarah Caldwell