Believe Quote by Karen Black

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

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

— Zola Jesus

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

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

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

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

— Harry Enfield

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

— Jihae

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

— Simon McBurney

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

— Gok Wan

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

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and…

— John Adams

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good…

— Roger Allam