There are not many who can speak as fascinatingly, with such love and enthusiasm for music as Attila Csabai. This is especially true for opera, which he calls "the strongest invocation of life." Indeed, nowhere are people as human as there, where with all the means of theater and the powerful magic of music, they discover themselves.
By singing and playing music, opera takes life seriously. Csabai focuses his gaze more intently on the libretto, listens more carefully to the music, and usually draws surprising conclusions, which are always well-founded. He demonstrates that the great works of opera are anything but museum exhibits; on the contrary, they are instructive works about life.
Mozart and Verdi were the great masters who, through their music, allowed the gaze to reach the unfathomable depths of the human soul. To see and hear their works is knowledge, experience, thrill, and endless happiness.
The curtain rises for one of the most entertaining and knowledge-rich books ever written on the subject of opera.
