Adler Quote by Robert Davi

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

— Beverly Sills

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 was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an…

— Kaija Saariaho

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

— Anna Netrebko

I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and…

— Simon Helberg

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

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

— Jihae

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

— Robert Lepage

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

— Karen Black

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

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

— Emmy Rossum

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

— Zola Jesus