Opera
- Franco Alfano – Cyrano de Bergerac
- George Enescu – Œdipe, op. 23, staged 13 March, Paris Opera
- Emmerich Kalman – Kaiserin Josephine
- Bohuslav Martinů – Divadlo za branou (The Suburban Theater)
- Gian Carlo Menotti – Amelia al Ballo
Read more about this topic: 1936 In Music
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)
“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 is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)