I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarde

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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If I werent reasonably placid, I dont think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, youve got to be absolutely like a horse. – Joan Sutherland

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

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

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