From the Reading Journal, #32

“Opera is attacked for its unreality; but musical drama is more original and more real than spoken drama, because, by nature, man sings when he speaks. Of all operas, those which are ‘true to life’ are the most improbable.”

– from “Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art” by Gerardus van der Leeuw.

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