Contemporary Quote by Trevor Nunn

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started…

— Robert Ashley

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

Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a…

— Stana Katic

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

— Katherine Jenkins

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

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and…

— Robert Lepage

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

— Gavin Creel

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

— Stephen Schwartz

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor