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This is Richard Storey Walker’s attempt to chronicle, reminisce and reflect on his half century of opera attendance. Explore the 2025 e-book edition of Opera Nights and preview the next volume, Opera Nights: Rossini, Donizetti & Verdi, now in development.
Music gives the most profound, ultimate, and secret information on the feeling expressed in the words, or the action presented in the opera. It expresses their real and true nature, and makes us acquainted with the innermost soul of the events and occurrences, the mere cloak and body of which we are presented on the stage.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Hear my creed: music can never, regardless of what it is combined with, cease being the highest, the redeeming art. Its nature is such that what all the other arts only hint at becomes in it the most indubitable of certainties, the most direct and definite of truth.
RICHARD WAGNER