"Offenbach" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The good Offenbach has had another failure at the Opera-Comique with Fantasio. Shall one ever get to hating piffle? That would be a fine step on ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... hath not shall be given what the other man could use to such advantage! The composer who can both pucker the lips of the gallery-gods and satisfy the ears of the musical critics, how infrequent a visitor on this planet! so that Offenbach and Sullivan must often have suffered from loneliness. The singer who can also act, how rare a song-bird! The interpreter of the lieder of Franz or Schubert or Grieg who will sacrifice vocal ...
— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton |
