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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. - Gioacchin

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. – Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

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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 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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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. – Hannah More

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. – H. L. Mencken

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