The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
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It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
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Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.?
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If we let fashion, love of innovation, and an alleged scientific spirit tempt us to surrender the native quality of our own art, the free natural certainty of our work and perception, our bright golden light, then we are simply being stupid and senseless.
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How wonderful operas would be if only there were no singers!
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Despisable one makes himself, when even if in ire a woman offends.
from the book "" by Giuseppe Verdi