Eighty Quote by Maurice Sendak

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary…

— Maurice Sendak

Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the…

— Luciano Berio

I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini.

— Mikis Theodorakis

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

— Giuseppe Verdi

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many…

— Susanna Phillips

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I…

— Benjamin Britten

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years…

— Philip Johnson

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of…

— Cecilia Bartoli

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about…

— Ezra Miller

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.…

— Baz Luhrmann