"I've always wondered why Puccini is so successful... the reasons for his success lay in the quality of the music... not the bad taste of the audience, as many malicious tongues have long claimed."
"These days, Puccini operas are staged more than two thousand times a year worldwide, regardless of any wars or crises... [his] astonishingly short oeuvre makes Puccini... the absolute leader in the industry in purely mathematical terms."
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