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Thread #146905   Message #3407646
Posted By: GUEST,Jane Ann Liston
20-Sep-12 - 07:38 AM
Thread Name: Opera
Subject: RE: Opera
Offenbach wrote a delightful Wagner parody 'Symphonie de l'avenir'. Wagner never forgave him for this. Whether Offenbach's Jewish origin had anything to do with this, I do not know.

By the way it was Rossini who made the 'wonderful moments but awful quarter hours' comment about Wagner.