Opera
- Franco Alfano - Sakùntala (revision of La leggenda di Sakùntala)
- Leonard Bernstein - Trouble in Tahiti
- Raymond Chevreuille - Atta Troll
- Mozart Camargo Guarnieri - Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, libretto by Mario de Andrade, premiered in May at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
- Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“He rides in the Row at ten oclock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You dont call that leading an idle life, do you?”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“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 (17521840)
“The opera isnt over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of dont count your chickens before theyre hatched. This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartletts Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)