Absurdity Quote by George Richard Marek

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

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

— Jean de la Bruyere

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

— Simon Rattle

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

— John Marshall

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious…

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an…

— Kaija Saariaho

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but…

— Ambrose Bierce