Humorous Quotes about Opera

In opera, there is always too much singing. ~ Claude Debussy

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ~ Cleveland Amory

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. ~ Dave Barry (Dave Barry Talks Back)

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20 ~ David Randolph

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. ~ Sir Edward Appleton

Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables. ~ Franz Schalk

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it. ~ George Burns (Gracie)

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

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

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ~ H. L. Mencken

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

Bed is the poor man's opera. ~ Italian Proverb

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ~ Jean De La Bruyère

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. ~ Mark Twain

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera. ~ Mark Twain

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. ~ Mark Twain (Eruption)

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. ~ Mark Twain

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

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. ~ Noel Coward

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. ~ Pierre Beaumarchais

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ~ Robert Benchley

(Definition of opera) An exotic and irrational entertainment. ~ Samuel Johnson

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~ W. H. Auden

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