You can read another review here.

The writer used the same Rossini quote about Mozart in his review of Marriage of Figaro last year. As he writes this time, “It was Rossini who paid the highest of compliments to the Austrian who “beat us at our own game.”” Nice. I do wonder where it comes from. Anyone know? (I did a search on the line and only came up with this, by the same reviewer. Surely the source is out there … somewhere?)
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