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Quote by Hans Keller
I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme ma

I never was an opera fan — about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. – Hans Keller

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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. – Robertson Davies

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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. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain

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I love Italian opera — its so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and dont care about their immortal souls, and dont worry about the ultimate. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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