Opera Proverbs
Sayings about Opera Bed is the poor man's opera . ~ Italian Proverb My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ~ Renee Fleming An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. ~ Joseph Addison Opera is a type of drama whose integral existence is determined from point to point and in the whole by musical articulation. Dramma per musica. ~ Joseph Kerman To sing opera , one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. ~ Andrea Bocelli [ Opera ] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths. ~ George Mare The aim of Opera has ever been, and still is today, confined to Music. Merely so as to afford Music with a colourable pretext for her own excursions, is the purpose of Drama drag...