Opera Quotes

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to br...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not ...

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a ti...

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

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and...

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean agai...

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..