Alley Quote by Shane Koyczan

Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music.

— Stephen Schwartz

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

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Diane Paulus

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

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 musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about…

— Toni Servillo

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

— Robert Lepage

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone…

— Beverly Sills

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

— Mark Getty

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Erik Satie