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“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.”
Giuseppe Verdi quotes (Leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, 1813-1901)
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“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
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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.”


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“Those terrible rows over who inherits what are not restricted to novels, soap operas or the families of the rich.”
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“I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons too long”
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“. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”
Edith Wharton quotes (American Novelist and short-story writer, 1862-1937)

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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.”
Maria Callas quotes (American Soprano. 1923-1977)
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“One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time”
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“Millions of dollars are spent on the opera which could be used in abolishing it”

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“I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals”
Jack Handy quotes (American Writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991-2003. Famous for his Deep Thoughts comedy sketches.)
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“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”
Marcel Marceau quotes (French Mime Artist, b.1923. He was the world's most famous mime and creator of Bip, the white-faced clown.)
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“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.”
Sir Edward Appleton quotes
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“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden quotes (English born American Poet, Dramatist and Editor who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. 1907-1973)
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“There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.”
Rudolf Bing quotes (Austrian Opera Administrator, 1902-1997)
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“I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.”


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