Then there is the sheer beauty...
of some of the religious moments in Verdi’s operas.
One favourite of mine is the prayer La Vergine degli Angeli from Forza del Destino [De Kracht v/h Noodlot, opera]. Listen to this and then see if you think that Verdi had no religious feeling. The same aria is set to film by Charles Sturridge...
Regardless of whether the singer is Renata Tebaldi or Leontyne Price...
the music conveys something that is at the very heart of Catholicism:
the beauty of compassion, made flesh for us...
in the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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