(274 quotes found)
“Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.”
Michael Walsh
“No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.”
Harry F. Waters
“Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.”
Rouben Mamoulian
“Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20”
David Randolph
“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
“There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.”
Rudolf Bing
“Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.”
James Stephens
“Bed is the poor man's opera”
Italian Proverb
“Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings”
Dan Cook
