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.
View quotes by Maria CallasI wouldn't mind seeing
opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded
opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
View quotes by Frank Lloyd WrightCan Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's
Opera 1728)
View quotes by John GayThe first rule in
opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
View quotes by Nellie MelbaOpera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.
View quotes by Ed GardnerThe
opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings (Washington Post 3 June 1978)
View quotes by Dan CookAdvertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan
Opera.
View quotes by David OgilvyNo good
opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
View quotes by W H AudenIf you have to be in a soap
opera try not to get the worst role.
View quotes by Judy GarlandGoing to the
opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
View quotes by Hannah MoreI wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an
opera.
View quotes by W B YeatsI do not mind what language an
opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
View quotes by Sir Edward Appleton It sucked [on his soap
opera acting]
View quotes by Paolo SegantiPeople are wrong when they say
opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
View quotes by Noel CowardSo long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose
opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
View quotes by Beverly SillsYou are beautiful and faded
Like an old
opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.
View quotes by Amy LowellGoing to the
opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it
View quotes by Hannah MoreI don't mind what language an
opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
View quotes by Edward AppletonAs a teenager I studied
opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.
View quotes by Karen BlackTo tell you the truth, I never listen to
opera at home!
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