Began Quote by John Eaton

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 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

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

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

— Mark Getty

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

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

I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a…

— James A. Michener

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

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

— Erik Satie

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