Business Quote by Rudolf Bing

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

— Christoph Waltz

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

— Lesley Garrett

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

— Terry Pratchett

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

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

— Placido Domingo

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

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

— Robert Lepage

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.…

— Baz Luhrmann