Peer group Quote by John Eliot Gardiner

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

— Goeran Gentele

“We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the…

— John Eliot Gardiner

“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

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

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art…

— Bruce Beresford

“The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!”

— John Irving

“Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life?”

— Elizabeth Mann Borgese

“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words the feelings…

— Anonymous

“Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics…

— John Eliot Gardiner

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an…

— Kaija Saariaho