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I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

— Lucy Griffiths

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

— Virgil Thomson

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to…

— Mark Twain

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

— Rufus Wainwright

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right…

— Jose Carreras

The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies…

— Jason Graae

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

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

— Simon McBurney

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

— Tarja Turunen