Opera
- Gustave Charpentier - Louise
- César Cui - Feast in Time of Plague
- August Enna - The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Asya
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Zaza
- Giacomo Puccini - Tosca
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tale of Tsar Saltan
- George Stephanescu - Cometa
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“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)
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)