Opera
- Giacomo Puccini - La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
- Jules Massenet - Don Quichotte premiered in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
- Gialdino Gialdini - La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
- Scott Joplin - Treemonisha completed but not staged
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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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)