Funny Quotes about Opera - Page 2

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

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

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; and the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but with all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax and 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, and partly because I want to love it and can't.
        — 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 do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
        — Sir Edward Appleton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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