A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
Robertson Davies

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
William Devane

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
Luciano Pavarotti

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Gian Carlo Menotti

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
Lesley Garrett

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
Sarah Caldwell

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
Deborah Bull

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
Andrea Bocelli

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
Placido Domingo

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 out to the world.
John Eaton

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Bruce Beresford

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Bobby Short

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
Chris Lowe

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
Timothy Dalton