Opera Composers Quotes

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...