– [While the orchestra is tuning] “I don’t know the name of this piece, but they always open with it.”
– [Before a performance of Pachelbel’s Canon] “What do you mean there is no cannon? That’s the only reason I came to this thing!”
– [During a performance of Turandot, after ‘Nessun Dorma’]: “The guy playing Pavarotti didn’t even look like him.”
– [Before a performance of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony] “Are we supposed to clap at the end, or...?”
– [At a Beethoven concert] “And which one of them is Beethoven?”
– [After a concert of Mozart symphonies] “I thought there would be some singing as well.”
– “My husband has a very loud sneeze. We were at a piano concert and when he sneezed, one of the pianists was startled right off the piano bench.”
– [A child at a performance of Rhapsody in Blue] “They stole the airplane commercial music!”
– [A child listening to the Dvořák Cello Concerto] “Daddy, can we go home when the old man has sawed through the box?”
– [A small child in the Royal Opera House foyer before a family performance] “But mummy, will they sing *all* the time?”
– [Woman on the phone during the interval of a concert where Krystian Zimmerman was playing Chopin] “I thought he was taking me shopping.”
– [Boy talking to his mum] “Why do they have to taste the wood thing before they tie it to their instrument? Does it taste good? What flavours do they have?”
– [During a performance of Aida] “A man in front of me slept through the whole thing, woke up right at the imprisonment and loudly asked ‘What happened? Did someone die?’”
Source: https://amp.classicfm.com/discover-music/humour/funniest-overheard-comments-at-classical-concerts/
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