Quotation by Peter Shaffer

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
Peter Shaffer (b. 1926), British playwright, screenwriter. Mozart (Tom Hulce), Amadeus, arguing to Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) that German opera is better at depicting love than Italian opera (1984).
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