"Amore, sommissione, dolcezza" - these are the attributes that Giuseppe Verdi ascribed to his title character Aida: a woman who stands for pure love, docility and tenderness
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"Regarding the theatrical effect, the RIGOLETTO seems to me to be the best subject that I have set to music so far [...]. There are situations of great power, variety, temperament, pathos.”
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"Amore, sommissione, dolcezza" - these are the attributes that Giuseppe Verdi ascribed to his title character Aida: a woman who stands for pure love, docility and tenderness
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"Regarding the theatrical effect, the RIGOLETTO seems to me to be the best subject that I have set to music so far [...]. There are situations of great power, variety, temperament, pathos.”
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"Regarding the theatrical effect, the RIGOLETTO seems to me to be the best subject that I have set to music so far [...]. There are situations of great power, variety, temperament, pathos.”
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Tannhäuser longs to return to his earthly life from the realm of Venus. Only when the Virgin Mary invokes him does he succeed in escaping the goddess. Hermann von Thuringia and his knightly hunting party welcome the long-lost man
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