Julia Werthimer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Jon Johanning:
>
>>I think the divide between Puccini-lovers and -haters may be whether you
>>enjoy music pumped full of gobs of pure feeling.  A lot of people never do,
>>and they are perfectly fine people--more power to them.  Others, like me,
>>sometimes go for it and sometimes not.
>
>This is true.  Sometimes Puccini is tolerable and sometimes not.

Or, as J.B.Morton ("Beachcomber") so neatly put it:

   Wagner is the Puccini of music.

Deryk Barker
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