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

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.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

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.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.