19 Movie Quotes about Opera (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about opera, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Now, her cousin was not only gifted on the glockenspiel, but being a screech owl, also sang soprano in the London opera.

Owl in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 Yes, I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. It sounds more like it should be an opera house or something.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

3 Hey! Friends of Italian opera. That's us. -Register over there.

Quote from Some Like It Hot

4 What are you doing this weekend? Because, you know, my bubbe's got season tickets to the opera, and she can't make it, so wanna go see Phantom? -Of the Opera? -Yeah.

Quote from Pineapple Express

5 They're performing a certain celebrated Italian opera.

Quote from Batman (1966)

6 Say, maestro, where were you at three o'clock on Saint Valentine's Day? -Me? I was at Rigoletto. -What's his first name? Where's he live?

George Raft as Spats Colombo in Some Like It Hot

7 Thank you. Thank you, fellow opera lovers.

Quote from Some Like It Hot

8 Then perhaps you'll join me later at the opera. My sister's box number is 27. It's on the Grand Tier. You'll see her name on the door. I hope to see you before half past 9. I don't want you to miss de Reszke in the duet.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

9 So, he gets this piece of Pavarotti... -It was Paganini. -Whatever. -It was Paganini. -Look, this is my story, okay? -Then tell it right, Cob. Pavarotti is a tenor. Paganini was a composer.

Courtney B. Vance as Jonesy in The Hunt for Red October

10 I could have been the greatest opera singer in the world.

Quote from The Comedy of Terrors