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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

~ Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796)

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

~ Maria Callas (December 02, 1923 - September 16, 1977)

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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

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My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.

~ Lord Harewood

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Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.

~ Rouben Mamoulian (October 08, 1897 - December 04, 1987)

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Life is absurd

~ Albert Camus (November 07, 1913 - January 04, 1960)

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

~ Frederick W. Faber

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