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

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I love to conduct opera.

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

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.