Conservative Quote by Robert Lepage

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

— Phyllida Lloyd

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up…

— Joseph Addison

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion…

— Joyce DiDonato

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

— Rufus Wainwright

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

— Bernard Haitink

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 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

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

— Christoph Waltz

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

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage…

— Laurence Equilbey

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates…

— Robert Lepage

“Opera's not for everyone, especially at these prices.”

— Joseph McElroy