Enough Quote by Kevin Spacey

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy…

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

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

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

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 get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,'…

— Jeff Perry

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

— Virgil Thomson

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

— David Rubenstein

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 requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

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