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"A supreme social challenge."

Amory, Cleveland · Opera · 0 fans >>
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

Auden, W. H. · Opera · 2 fans >>
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"If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni."

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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 · Opera · 0 fans >>
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"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."

Bruyere, Jean De La · Opera · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Opera · 0 fans >>
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"A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera."

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

Keller, Hans · Opera · 0 fans >>
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"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. · Opera · 1 fans >>
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"Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

Mencken, H. L. · Opera · 1 fans >>
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"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."

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