Baroque Quote by Robert Greenberg

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

— Richard Strauss

“Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans, there are sopranos in the olive branches.…

— Sean Thomas Dougherty

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She would not attend the dinner (she did not eat before she sang) but would arrive at the end of the meal and perform…

— Ann Patchett

“She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's always creeping from…

— Electric Light Orchestra

“She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had…

— Veronica Rossi

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

— Anonymous

“The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.”

— Emilia Pardo Bazán

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

Opera has made me consider suicide.

— Fred Willard

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

— W. H. Auden

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

— Anonymous