Opera
- Paul Frederic Bowles – Denmark Vesey
- Paul Hindemith – Mathis der Maler
- Dmitri Kabalevsky – Colas Breugnon
- Jeronimas Kacinskas – Nonet
- Ernst Krenek – Karl V
- Douglas Stuart Moore – The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“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)