“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
Kenneth Clark
“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”
Moliere
“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
Josh Groban
“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.”
Sir Edward Appleton
“If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.”
Sir Thomas Beecham
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”
Marcel Marceau
