“Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.”
Gian Carlo Menotti
“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
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
Maria Callas
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
Robert Burns
“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
“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
