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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

— Gustav Mahler

'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you…

— Simon Rattle

“I take it you do not agree with your countrymen’s religious practices.’ ‘Oh no,’ said Hippothous. ‘I am not Cilician by birth. Mine has…

— Harry Sidebottom

Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I…

— Measha Brueggergosman

“One evening we were exploring the Baths of Caracalla together, while debating the question of merit or demerit in human behaviour and its rewards…

— Hector Berlioz

“Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I like Italian High Opera, German Comic Opera and the Grand Ole’ Opry – in no particular order.”

— C.L. Gammon