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Opera Quotes
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of
bleeding, he sings.
Author: Ed Gardner
Source: in "Duffy's Tavern", a 1940's radio program
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Author: Ed Gardner
Source: None
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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.
Author: Maria Callas
Source: None
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Author: Gian Carlo Menotti
Source: None
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
Author: Lotte Lehmann
Source: None
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Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
Source: None
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Author: Hannah More
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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Author: Virgil Thomson
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If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Author: Sarah Caldwell
Source: None
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