Mark Twain Quotes

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I love to conduct opera.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.