Verdi Quotes

“So you’re a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“Din unikhet er mer verdt enn en krone.”
― Jan Halsteinrud Brende

“Verdi's music did little to comfort him, and he left the theatre and walked homeward, without knowing his way, through the torturous, tragic streets of Rome, where heavier sorrows than his had been carried under the stars.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“[Don Carlos] will always remain open-ended, asking to be fleshed out by the imagination of others, silently demanding a finale of his authors, no matter how fantastical.”
― Maria-Cristina Necula Ph.D., The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions