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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— H. L. Mencken

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated…

— Edith Wharton

I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that…

— Jessye Norman

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

— Henry Louis Mencken

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

— Victoria de los Angeles

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged…

— Susan Wiggs

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

— Klaus Nomi

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour…

— Maurice Druon