Always Quote by Katherine Jenkins

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music.

— Stephen Schwartz

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of…

— Serj Tankian

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 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 like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact…

— Rory Bremner

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of…

— Lesley Garrett

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

— Theo Hutchcraft

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 seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it…

— Rufus Wainwright