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In opera, there is always too much singing.

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.

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

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

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

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

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

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