Contemporary Quote by Robert Ashley

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in…

— Robert Ashley

I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote…

— Stephen Schwartz

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch…

— David Randolph

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They…

— Robert Wilson

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

— Bruce Beresford

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

— Simon McBurney

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health…

— Lesley Sharp

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my…

— Franz Liszt

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

— Kristine Opolais

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is…

— Judith Martin

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka