Deserve Quote by Margaret Fuller

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

— Hannah More

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up…

— Joseph Addison

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 had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

— Robert Lepage

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

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

— Harry Enfield

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art…

— Bruce Beresford

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion…

— Joyce DiDonato

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

— Renee Fleming

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

— Kenneth Clark

“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?”

— Lawrence W. Levine