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:
“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 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)
“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)