Opera Quote by C.L. Gammon

Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of…

— Anonymous

“The Fourth Crusade was an epic clusterfuck a comic-opera misadventure a tragic saga with farcical elements.”

— Neal Stephenson

“And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona.” “How is it?” “It is all still comic opera. First it was the paradise of the crackpots and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera”

— Michael Wolff

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested…

— Sanford Meisner

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my…

— Franz Liszt

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

— Kristine Opolais

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is…

— Judith Martin

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start…

— Eva LaRue

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the…

— Maria Callas

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

— Wang Leehom