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Metastasio's Views on Modern Singers Compared to the Singers of Antiquity (Vienna, April 25, 1770)
‘The theatres of the ancients were vast squares, ours are vessels of small dimensions. Hence, in order to be heard in them by the...

Tim Braithwaite


Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400-1458) on the singers of Pope Nicholas V
‘In honour of immortal God, the Supreme Pontiff Nicholas V filled the most sumptuous sanctuary that he had erected among the papal courts...

Tim Braithwaite
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