Finnish Opera

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    A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
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    I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
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