Quotes from Gioacchino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Tous les genres sont bons, Hors le genre ennuyeux." (All genres are good, Except the boring one.

Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth

I am writing like an angel

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.