“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
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“ Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e… ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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