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Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

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

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

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

— Erik Satie

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

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the…

— Placido Domingo

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices.…

— Karen DeCrow

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

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much…

— Bruce Beresford