1990 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Gerald Barry – The Intelligence Park
  • Azio Corghi – Blimunda
  • Mark Lanz Weiser – Purgatory (chamber opera, based on a play by William Butler Yeats)

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

    “The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
    —Anonymous.

    A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)

    “The opera house sparkled with tiers
    And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)

    “The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)