Adolescence Quote by John Adams

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

— Karen Black

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot…

— Bernard Williams

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

— Tod Machover

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera…

— Daniel Handler

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15.…

— Meryl Streep

In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it put me…

— Sam Wanamaker

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group…

— Nina Arianda

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I…

— Andrew Solomon

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

— Jihae

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

— Harry Enfield

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad,…

— Sandra Bullock