I’m kind of getting off the track here, but the other day I was having a casual conversation with a couple of friends on great opera singers of all times inspired by the recent death of
Cesare Siepi which eventually ended in reflections on the demise of great figures in opera. Although with some delay I’d like to pay tribute to one of my favourite bass-baritones, because I owe moments of elevated joy to artists like him.
What can you say when a genius dies?
Bewail not life with its exhausting breath,
What’s life and death? But moan about the flame,
That over the whole creation blazed,
And parts into the night, weeping as it fades.
A. Fet (copyright © 2010 by Brainstorming Ideas)
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