Acting Quote by Mark Twain

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give…

— Jean Anouilh

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

— Robert Wilson

“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore the “taint”…

— Aaron Copland

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.

— Anonymous

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic…

— Hans Frank

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

— Zubin Mehta

To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

— Andris Nelsons

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because…

— Richard Bonynge