"Si ridesti il leon": that's music, that's beauty

Speranza


Verdi: a novel of the opera
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Franz Werfel - 1925 - 438 pages - Snippet view

'Si ridesti il leon di Castiglia!' That's music. That's beauty! I know them all, all of them. And now, because I am old, they send me, who have seen so much, down here to be a doorkeeper. Forty years I have worked up there, ...

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