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«In opera, there is always too much singing.»
Author: Claude Debussy | Keywords: opera
«No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.»
Author: Harry F. Waters | Keywords: banalities, banality, opera, soap, soap opera, soap operas, The Human Condition, wondrous
«Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.»
Author: Marcel Marceau (Mime Artist) | About: Music | Keywords: conveys, images, moods, opera, operas, plots, plotting, provides, structure
«I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.»
Author: Sir Edward Appleton | About: Language | Keywords: opera, operas, Sung
«If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.»
Author: Judy Garland | Keywords: opera, role, soap, soaps, soap opera, soap operas
«No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: no-good, opera, operas, plot, plotting, sensible
«I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, Writer) | About: Opera | Keywords: anachronism, equivalent, opera, ponderous, smoking
«I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: enjoyed, exhausted, greatly, opera, physically, ventured, Wagner, witnessed
«No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: opera, plot, sensible
«I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all . . . like an opera.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: expects, opera, oxford
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