Quotes about opera




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"A supreme social challenge."

Amory, Cleveland on opera    Share


"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

Auden, W. H. on opera
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"Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television."

Berio, Luciano on opera    Share

"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."

Bruyere, Jean De La on opera    Share

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

Clark, Kenneth, Lord on opera    Share

"A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera."

Davies, Robertson on opera    Share

"I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart."

Keller, Hans on opera    Share

"I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate."

Lawrence, D. H. on opera    Share

"Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

Mencken, H. L. on opera    Share

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

More, Hannah on opera    Share

"I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."

Poe, Edgar Allan on opera    Share

"How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers."

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio on opera    Share

"If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse."

Sutherland, Joan on opera    Share

"The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]"

Twain, Mark on opera    Share

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."

Zeffirelli, Franco on opera    Share

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