Funny Quotes about Opera
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
— H. L. Mencken
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean De La Bruyére
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title — expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
— Cleveland Amory
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
— Noel Coward
Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20
— David Randolph
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
— Robert Benchley
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
— H. L. Mencken
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
— Moliere
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
— W. H. Auden
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
— George Burns
In opera, there is always too much singing.
— Claude Debussy
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