Opera Quotes

Opera Quotes

Frank Lloyd Wright

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

Jonathan Miller

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

Cleveland Amory

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Goeran Gentele

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

Ed Gardne

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings

Maria Callas

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Peter Lisagor

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.

David Randolph

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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

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