Contemporary Quote by Robert Ashley

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

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 very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

— Robert Lepage

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot…

— Bernard Williams

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

— The Weeknd

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

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

— Simon McBurney

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

— Goeran Gentele

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is…

— Renee Fleming