Important Quote by Howard Jacobson

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

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Puccini is my favorite composer.

— Kristine Opolais

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

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

— Tod Machover

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

— Michael Ball

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to…

— Mark Twain

I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and…

— Simon Helberg

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

— Jon Lovitz

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

— Simon McBurney

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

— Benjamin Britten

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

— Lucy Griffiths