Achieve Quote by Thomas Beecham

Immortality is possible through Music.

— A D Kruk

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

— Hugh Griffith

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

— Christoph Waltz

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

— Loretta Chase

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're…

— Charles Nelson Reilly