Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  • -- Kenneth Clark 克拉克

歌剧,仅次于哥特式建筑,是西方人类最奇怪的发明之一。这是任何逻辑过程都无法预见的。

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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

如果你把歌剧当作某种总是以某种方式进行的东西来对待,这就是你所得到的。我走近一部歌剧,好像我不知道似的。

Architecture in general is frozen music.

建筑一般是凝固的音乐。

Architecture aims at Eternity.

建筑的目标是永恒。