Opera Quotes


In opera, there is always too much singing. Claude Debussy Opera 102
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. H. L. Mencken Opera 90
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Jean De La Bruyere Opera 87
A supreme social challenge. Cleveland Amory Opera 84
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini Opera 83
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin Mark Twain Opera 78
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. Franco Zeffirelli Opera 75
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. Judy Garland Opera 58
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. Robertson Davies Opera 51
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Hannah More Opera 50
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. Frank Lloyd Wright Opera 36
I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. Hans Keller Opera 26

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