“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
Josh Groban
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings”
Ed Gardner
“In opera, there is always too much singing.”
Claude Debussy
“The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings”
Dan Cook
“OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.”
Bryan Adams
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