Italian Quote by Vincent B. Chip LoCoco

“He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]”

— Vincent B. Chip LoCoco

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact…

— W. H. Auden

“Out here the sunsets were like Italian operas, torrid, emotional affairs that went on for three hours or more, hanging in the sky like…

— Paul Murray

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

— Loretta Chase

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the…

— Charles Lamb

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Whatever it is, it can’t possibly be as important as the Italian Concerto. Now let’s get to work.” We work for three and a…

— Hilary T. Smith

“I like your opera - I think I will set it to music”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more To blazon it, then sweeten with…

— William Shakespeare

“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways…

— Lisa Wingate