Best Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly…

— Simon McBurney

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

— Robert Lepage

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone…

— Bryn Terfel

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

In opera, there is always too much singing.

— Claude Debussy

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

— Rudolf Bing

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

— Christoph Waltz

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

— Jon Lovitz

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

— Claude Debussy

The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when…

— Richard Bonynge

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

— Beverly Sills

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts,…

— Andrea Bocelli