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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact ...
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho ...
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
And a man came out of the trees
And took our horse by the head
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Off south, the bison multiply so fast
a slaughter's mandatory every spring
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every mode ...
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a m ...
Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! On account of you I almost heard the opera!
Poor devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-Cross,
To see an old woman get up on her horse.
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