“When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance”
Victor Borge
“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
Josh Groban
“One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time”
Gioacchino Rossini
“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
“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
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
Robert Burns
“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
