‘But last winter when I heard so much music that my life was changed for ever, someone said to me that Wagner can take us to such ecstasy that ordinary life is almost unbearable afterwards, whereas Verdi, like Shakespeare, reconciles us to the earth, to our miserable human condition, makes us noble in our despair.’
‘That’s quite a speech, Rose,’ laughed Leo...
From the closing chapter of "The Singing House"
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