Not Entirely Nice
Jerry Fodor, 2 November 2000
Puccini: His International Art
by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini.
Chicago, 530 pp., £41, September 2000,0 226 29757 8 Show More
by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini.
Chicago, 530 pp., £41, September 2000,
“... I have a friend who has a friend who is a composer of international stature, heavily invested in the aesthetics of difficulty. He’s also opera-addicted and likes to get to the Met whenever he comes through town. My friend remembers a phone call from his friend that went about like this: ‘Listen, they’re doing Bohème tonight. Let’s go; but please don’t tell anybody ... ”