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My heyday is over, and another must take my place. The world wants something new. Others have ceded their places to us and we must cede ours to still others... I am more than happy to give mine to people of talent like Verdi.

— Gaetano Donizetti

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Quoted in Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley, and Joe Staines, The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 2002, p. 186.