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3 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
“Stendhal is someone who loved voluptuous excess, like one of his heroes, Rossini. I think a lot about the wonderful musicality of Rossini.”
— Dan Wang
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…Why is Stendhal your favorite novelist? Stendhal is someone who loved voluptuous excess, like one of his heroes, Rossini. I think a lot about the wonderful musicality of Rossini. The Barber of Seville is a great place to start. Rossini also wrote these comic operas that sound a little bit strange today in terms of only their titles, The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Turk in Italy. These were early operas. He composed them, I think, in his early or mid-’20s. They are so much fun to listen to. The voice mixing really bursts when you have excellent singers. Then, you have some really excellent late works, like the Comte Ory, which is Rossini’s final opera. Very underrated, I think.…
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