Access Quote by Jacob Hashimoto

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 something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during…

— Jacob Hashimoto

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

— Christoph Waltz

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

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

— Cleveland Amory

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They…

— Robert Wilson

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

— Simon McBurney

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact…

— Rory Bremner

Opera is really fun.

— Renee Fleming

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

— Ford Frick