I haven’t heard anything like that since the orphanage burned down. (when asked what he thought of an opera he’d just attended)
Opera Quotes
I wouldn’t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Millions of dollars are spent on the opera which could be used in abolishing it.
Even the music was nice. (After attending an opera, Yogi mentioned that he liked it)
Opera, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
The golden age of opera, from Mozart to Verdi, coincided with the golden age of liberal humanism, of unquestioning belief in freedom and progress… To say that operas are more difficult to write does not mean that they are impossible. This would only follow if we should cease to believe in free will and personality […]
