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# Weekend Words: Sing
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-sing/
- Published: 2013-10-06T13:30:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:34.000Z
- Description: This week, Weekend Words sings a torch song for the dear, departed City Opera.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![Frans Hals, "Singing Boy with a Flute" (1623-1625). Oil on canvas, 62 x 55 cm. Staatliche Museen, Berlin. (Image via Web Gallery of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/hals-640.jpg)

Frans Hals, “Singing Boy with a Flute” (1623-1625). Oil on canvas, 62 x 55 cm. Staatliche Museen, Berlin. (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

This week, Weekend Words sings a torch song for the dear, departed City Opera.

> “Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.”  
>  
> **—Friedrich Nietzsche**

> “Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything.”  
>  
> **—William Shakespeare, *King Lear***

> “I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”  
>  
> **—Edgar Allan Poe**

> “It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”  
>  
> **—Rod Serling**

> “And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.”  
>  
> **—Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark”**