Ideas Quote by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

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

— Roger Allam

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

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed…

— Alex Winston

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice…

— Junichiro Koizumi

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art…

— Bruce Beresford

“I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty