A New Philosophy of Opera Quotes

“offering an experience not dissimilar from the mumbled participation and general distraction of so many religious communities.”
― Yuval Sharon, A New Philosophy of Opera

“But what actually is Monteverdi's L'Orfeo?.... Perhaps it forms a perfect microcosm of what it means to exist at all: an emptiness that can nevertheless contain so much beauty, profundity, insight, and possibility”
― Yuval Sharon, A New Philosophy of Opera