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

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

I'm an opera lover.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.