Opera
- Ralph Benatzky - Im weissen Rössl
- Leoš Janáček - From the House of the Dead
- Arnold Schoenberg - Von Heute auf Morgen (1 February 1930, Frankfurt)
- Kurt Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“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)