“It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.”
Bryan Adams
“In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera”
Israel Zangwill
“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
Josh Groban
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”
Marcel Marceau
“Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.”
Rouben Mamoulian
“Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.”
Lesley Garrett
“In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.”
George Crumb
