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Operatic Quotes by Thomas Beecham
- A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you…
- No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
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- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,… — Wyndham Lewis
- I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. — Marcel Proust
- I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele
- It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. — William H. Macy
- Perhaps the more ‘operatic’ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the… — Oliver Herring
- A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too… — Thomas Beecham
- These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election… — Vincent Bugliosi