The story is as false to nature as it is sacrilegious; its trumpery theatricalism is as great a hindrance to a possible return of Biblical opera as the disgusting celebration of necrophilism in Richard Strauss's "Salome."
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Oscar Wilde thought France might accept a glorification of necrophilism and wrote his delectable book in French.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel