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“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

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Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”

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Author:Freddie Mercury

“It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.”

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Author:Bruce Beresford

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.”

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Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell

Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell

“When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.”

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Author:Victor Borge

“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”

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Author:Edward Victor Appleton

“How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.”

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Author:Gioachino Rossini