Beast Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before…

— Rufus Wainwright

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because…

— Richard Bonynge

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

To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

— Andris Nelsons

I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents…

— Andris Nelsons

“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore the “taint”…

— Aaron Copland

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my…

— Franz Liszt

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic…

— Hans Frank

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And no matter…

— Stephen Schwartz