Image Credit… Leemage/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images Image Credit… Archivio Storico Ricordi, Milan, via the Morgan Library & Museum, New York He wrote his Requiem, which had its premiere in 1874, but no operas, to the increasing anxiety of those close to him. A friend wrote to him in 1877: “Even if I attach no weight to the rumors that you’re at work on a new score (some say ‘Nero, ’ others ‘Julius Caesar, ’ others something else again) I hope that you have not terminated your career and that your genius will manifest itself with new creations. ” But Verdi, writing to another friend the following year, was resolute. Returning to the stage would inevitably cast him as a pale imitator of Wagner, at that time the sensation of Europe: “For what reason should I write? What would I succeed in doing? What would I gain by it? The results would be quite wretched. GAMEFRONT RMS TITANIC FOR VIRTUAL SAILOR 7 MOVIE.
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