Quotes of Puccini - somelinesforyou

“ Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration. ”

- George Lloyd

“ Andrea Chenier plays like an operatic historical novel of the French Revolution. It is not an attempt at a biography of the real Chenier, but a dramatic fantasy based on his life and poems, with a libretto by Puccini's frequent collaborator Luigi Illica. ”

- Umberto Giordano
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