Citas de Verdi

• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

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• I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

  Werner Herzog

  Iceland, Choices, Feelings

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• Soy un oyente arrogante e impaciente, pero en el caso de algunos compositores, muy pocos, cuando escucho una obra que no me gusta, estoy convencido de que es culpa mía. Verdi es uno de esos compositores.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Arrogant, Faults

  Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

  Maurice Sendak

  Italian, Two, Opera

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• Había estado leyendo un libro fabuloso [The Man Verdi, de Frank Walker] sobre [Giuseppe] Verdi, a quien adoro.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lectura, Libro, Hombres

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Religious, Theatre, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright on Passion, Opera and Taking Care of the Earth". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Age, Want

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Singing, Mahler, Sibelius

  "Cristalino". Entrevista con Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2005.

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• Tom [Courtenay] y Albert Finney conocieron a Ron Harwood en el tocador, así empezó todo. Es un documental maravilloso. Se titula El beso de Tosca y el Sr. Hardwood me habló de él cuando le pregunté cuál había sido su génesis. Se hizo en 1983 y Verdi, que era rico y tenía éxito, hacia el final de su vida decidió construirse una mansión en Milán, donde vivía, y estipuló que cuando muriera los cantantes y músicos de ópera -porque conocía a muchos que ya no tocaban en la Scala y algunos eran pobres- podrían vivir allí.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Exitoso, Besar, Músico

  "Cuarteto - Entrevista a Dustin Hoffman". Rueda de prensa, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Quizá la suciedad sea la condición necesaria de la belleza.... Tal vez la higiene y el arte nunca puedan ser compañeros de cama. No hay Verdi, después de todo, sin escupir en las trompetas. No hay Duse sin una muchedumbre de burgueses malolientes dándose coriza. Y pensemos en los refugios inexpugnables para los microbios preparados por Miguel Ángel en los rizos de la barba de Moisés.

  Aldous Huxley

  Arte, Realidad, Pensamiento

  Aldous Huxley (1953). "Las obras completas de Aldous Huxley"

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• Si realmente fue la reina Isabel quien exigió ver a Falstaff en una comedia, entonces demostró ser una crítica muy perspicaz. Pero incluso en Las alegres comadres de Windsor, Falstaff no ha encontrado ni podría haber encontrado su verdadero hogar porque Shakespeare era sólo un poeta. Para eso tuvo que esperar casi doscientos años, hasta que Verdi escribió su última ópera. Falstaff no es el único caso de un personaje cuyo verdadero hogar es el mundo de la música; otros son Tristán, Isolda y Don Giovanni.

  W. H. Auden

  Queens, Character, Home

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• Quiero que sepan lo que siento por mi herencia italiana, así que me gustaría decir unas palabras en italiano: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

  Susan Lucci

  Family, Italian, Pavarotti

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• Un hombre como Verdi debe escribir como Verdi.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Escritura, Hombres

  Giuseppe Verdi (2016). “Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Me reconforta pensar en Verdi, que compuso óperas atronadoras a los ochenta años; en Miguel Ángel, que hizo grandes obras a los noventa, y en Tiziano, que pintó mejor que nunca a los cien.

  James A. Michener

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

  David Suchet

  Relax, Way, Music Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

  Charles Rosen

  Doe, Affection, Evoke

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

  Luciano Berio

  Hands, People, Darkness

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Music, Important, Ravel

  "Music (For A Film): Jonny Greenwood Of Radiohead Interviewed". Interview with Chris Woolfrey, thequietus.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

  Mary Oliver

  Mañana, primavera, otoño

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.39, Penguin

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• I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, World, Opera

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