Opera
- Paul Abraham – Die Blume von Hawaii (operetta), staged 24 July, in Leipzig, Neues Theater
- George Antheil - Helen Retires (not performed until 1934)
- Arthur Benjamin - The Devil Take Her, staged 1 December, London, Royal College of Music
- Alfredo Casella – La donna serpente, op. 50 (not performed until 1932)
- Gustave Charpentier - Orphée
- Paul Dessau - Das Eisenbahnspiel
- George Enescu – Œdipe, op. 23 (not performed until 1936)
- Walter Goehr - Malpopita
- Arthur Honegger – La belle de Moudon (operetta), staged 30 May, in Mézières, Jorat (Switzerland)
- Italo Montemezzi – La notte di Zoraima, staged 31 January, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
- Germaine Tailleferre – Zoulaina (never performed)
- Deems Taylor – Peter Ibbetson, op. 20, staged 7 February, Metropolitan Opera, New York
- Gabriel von Wayditch - Horus
- Egon Wellesz – Die Bakchantinnen, staged 20 June, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
- Jaromir Weinberger – Milovaný hlas, staged 28 February, Munich
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – La vedova scaltra, staged 5 March, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome
- Eugène Ysaÿe - Peter the Miner
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“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
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And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
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“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)