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«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»
Author: David Randolph | About: Opera | Keywords: opera
«Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings»
Author: Ed Gardner | About: Opera | Keywords: bleeding, opera, sings, stabbed
«One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time»
«Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.»
Author: Giuseppe Verdi | About: Mistakes | Keywords: A-one, interminable, opera, operas, pompous
«Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.»
«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.»
«People 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.»
«Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | About: Opera | Keywords: opera, sings, stabbed
«Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.»
«Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: noises, opera

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