Rome Opera Chorus

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“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called “eternal.” What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.”
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“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
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