Famous quotes containing the words sophie arnould and/or opera:
“They give themselves to God when the Devil will no longer have them.”
—Sophie Arnould (1740–1802)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)