“ Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration. ”
- George Lloyd- Copy
“ Opera once was an important social instrument — especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness… ”
- Luciano Berio- Copy
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