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Quotes about opera
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A supreme social challenge. (Bulloch Jeremy)
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. (Bulloch Jeremy)
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brnnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. (Bulloch Jeremy)
Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television. (Bulloch Jeremy)
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. (Bulloch Jeremy)
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. (Bulloch Jeremy)
I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. (Bulloch Jeremy)
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (Bulloch Jeremy)
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. (Bulloch Jeremy)
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. (Bulloch Jeremy)
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. (Bulloch Jeremy)
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] (Bulloch Jeremy)
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. (Bulloch Jeremy)
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. (Bulloch Jeremy)
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. (Bulloch Jeremy)
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming. (Bulloch Jeremy)
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. (Bulloch Jeremy)
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