Venom - Temples Of Ice

It should be noted that even without any subjectivity generated by the antipathy towards the personality of the composer, Wagner did not like the work of Meyerbeer at all: “Robert's score greatly disappointed me: according to newspaper reports, I expected extraordinary originality and eccentric innovations. I didn’t find anything like this in this completely flat piece, and the opera, in which the finale, similar to the finale of the second act, was met, could in no way be classified as my favorite sample of musical creativity. Only the underground pipe with valves — the voice of the mother’s ghost in the last act — impressed me ... In the end, I perceived these empty, affecting, imitating all modern manners melodies only in terms of their suitability to gain public approval. ”