Opera
- Cleopatra (1779) by Pasquale Anfossi
- Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber
- La Mort de Cléopâtre (1829) (cantata) by Hector Berlioz
- Antoine et Cléopâtre (1972) by Emmanuel Bondeville
- Cleopatra (1904) (tone poem) by George Whitefield Chadwick
- La Cleopatra by Domenico Cimarosa
- Omnium (2005) by Norman Durkee
- Antoine et Cléopâtre (2006) by Lewis Furey (adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra)
- "Variation de Cléopâtre" (from Faust) by Charles Gounod
- Cleopatra e Cesare (1742) by Carl Heinrich Graun
- Great Caesar (1899) (burlesque) by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens
- Cleopatra's Night by Henry Kimball Hadley
- Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) (serenata) by Johann Adolph Hasse
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1937) by Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Cléopâtre by Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet
- Die unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten (1704) by Johann Mattheson
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1701) (serenata) by Alessandro Scarlatti
- Die Perlen der Kleopatra (1923) by Oscar Straus
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“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)