[Borges]

Verdi was not religious at all. The Requiem was criticized at the time as being more of a theatrical spectacle. His operas are blood and thunder. Where do you here the ‘reverential and liturgical’ side? Or are you confusing him with Monteverdi?

[bboop]

I was thinking of the wondrous chorus in (some) opera — ‘by the rivers of Babylon we hung up our harps.’ Which I had thot was Verdi, but we saw it several years ago and I am quite possibly mistaken.

I play viola, so am lost in the matrix, do not pay attention to all the details. That’s why I was verifying.