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

— Mark Getty

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

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many…

— Susanna Phillips

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

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

— Karen Black

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

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.…

— Baz Luhrmann

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 really fun.

— Renee Fleming

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti