“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand
"Notes on Music and Opera", p. 472
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
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