About Quote by Susanna Phillips

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

— Hannah More

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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

— W. H. Auden

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

— Marlene Dietrich

“It was weird, ’cause there we were in Italy listening to people singing in German. The music was nice, though, and there was this…

— J.L. Merrow

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

— Andrea Bocelli

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

— The Weeknd

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

— Cleveland Amory

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go,…

— Tom Waits

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

— Edward Abbey

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

— David Markson

Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about not going to the…

— Gretchen Rubin