131 Quotes About Opera

My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.

The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - This damn door sticks,This damn door sticksIt sticks no matter what I do.It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pullingPerhaps it should be marked 'push'?

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds. But it never reached the extremes Dr. Urbino had hoped for, which was to see Italianizers and Wagnerians confronting each other with sticks and canes during the intermissions.

Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach!Der junge Tag darf hier uns nicht mehr sehn.Arise, companion of my shame!Daybreak must not find us here.

So you’re a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.