Dmitri Shostakovich Quote

What do you think of Puccini?
[Britten: "I think his operas are dreadful."]
No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Quoted in Lord Harewood The Tongs and the Bones (1981) p. 133.

What do you think of Puccini? [Britten: I think his operas are dreadful.] No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

What do you think of Puccini? [Britten: I think his operas are dreadful.] No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

What do you think of Puccini? [Britten: I think his operas are dreadful.] No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

What do you think of Puccini? [Britten: I think his operas are dreadful.] No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.