Opera
- Samuel Adler – The Outcast of Poker Flat
- Jurriaan Andriessen – Kalchas
- Claude Arrieu – La cabine téléphonique (March 15, 1959, RTF)
- Henk Badings – Salto mortale (TV chamber opera), Nederlandse Televisie Sichting, June 19, 1959
- Samuel Barber – A Hand of Bridge
- Grażyna Bacewicz – Przygoda króla Artura
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl – Aniara
- Carlos Chávez – Love Propitiated October 28, 1959, Mexico City (revised version of Panfilo e Lauretta)
- Paul Dessau – Puntila
- Ferenc Farkas – Paradies der Schwiegersöhne
- Nicolas Flagello – The Judgment of St Francis
- Lukas Foss – Introductions and Goodbyes (a nine-minute opera, libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks – The Glittering Gate (New York, May 15, 1959)
- Jakov Gotovac – Stanac
- Alan Hovhaness – Blue Flame, op. 172
- Sven-Eric Johanson – Kunskapens vin
- Elizabeth Maconchy – The Sofa
- Carl Orff – Oedipus der Tyrann (Stuttgart, December 11, 1959)
- Francis Poulenc – La Voix humaine
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“He rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“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.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)