L'huomo, in somma, ? un picciol mondo, et ? perfettissima e compiutissima opera di Dio.
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Dell'Honore, p. 238.
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Translation: Man, in a word, is a world in miniature, and the most perfect and most finished work of God.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 335.Stefano Guazzo
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The most elegant way of solving the opera problem would be to blow up the opera houses.
Pierre Boulez
Ne’ piccioli suggetti ? gran fatica,
Ma qualunque gli esprime ornati, e chiari,
Non picciol frutto del su’ ingegno coglie.Giovanni Rucellai
To me [Sydney Opera House] looks like a portable typewriter full of oyster shells, and to the contention that it echoes the sails of yachts on the harbour I can only point out that the yachts on the harbour don't waste any time echoing opera houses.
Clive James
Some can sing opera, Luciano Pavarotti was an opera.
No one could inhabit those acrobatic melodies and words like him.
He lived the songs, his opera was a great mash of joy and sadness; surreal and earthy at the same time; a great volcano of a man who sang fire but spilled over with a love of life in all its complexity, a great and generous friend. ... I spoke to him last week... the voice that was louder than any rock band was a whisper. Still he communicated his love. Full of love.
That's what people don't understand about Luciano Pavarotti. Even when the voice was dimmed in power, his interpretive skills left him a giant among a few tall men.Luciano Pavarotti
The voice is so melodious, and - of course, by accident, this glorious voice and musical sensibility was combined with this beautiful, sexual man and this very unconscious - or unselfconscious stage movements. Presley's registration, the breadth of his tone, listening to some of his records, you'd think you were listening to an opera singer. But…it's an opera singer with a deep connection to the blues.
Elvis Presley
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