Opera
- Vittorio Giannini - Lucedia
- Gustav Holst - The Wandering Scholar
- Leoš Janáček - Destiny
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
- Virgil Thomson - Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto by Gertrude Stein)
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)