Opera Genre Quotes

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

Actually I do not listen to much opera 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.

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.

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

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 was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.