Opera
- Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda, the first publicly-shown opera, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice, during carnival
- Virgilio Mazzocchi & Marco Marazzoli – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12)
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)
“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 is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)