Key Quote by Mark Getty

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 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

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

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

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more…

— Andrea Bocelli

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're…

— Charles Nelson Reilly

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but…

— Ambrose Bierce