Acting Quote by Robert Wilson

Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and…

— Daniel Barenboim

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

“My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. ‘Since when have you liked Wagner?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

— Slavoj Žižek

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of…

— Trey Anastasio

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop,…

— Andris Nelsons

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form'…

— Harmony Korine

What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who…

— Richard Wagner

“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal . It…

— Philip K. Dick