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:
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)
“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)