Opera
- Jack Beeson - Hello, Out There
- Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw
- Valentino Bucchi – Il contrabasso (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 20 June)
- Aaron Copland - The Tender Land
- Paul Hindemith - Neues vom Tage (revision)
- Bohuslav Martinů - Mirandolina
- Jerome Moross - The Golden Apple
- William Walton - Troilus and Cressida
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