Ballet Quote by Placido Domingo

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

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

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

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much…

— Bruce Beresford

I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a…

— James A. Michener

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

— Robert Lepage

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

— Erik Satie

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music…

— William Bolcom

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