Dead Quote by Hugh Griffith

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Opera has made me consider suicide.

— Fred Willard

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

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

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

— Mark Getty

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

— Loretta Chase

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

— Anonymous

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

— Robert Burns

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

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