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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