1955 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Carlisle Floyd – Susannah
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky – Nikita Vershinin
  • Lukas Foss – Griffelkin (opera in three acts, libretto by A. Reed after H. Foss, premiered on November 6, 1955, on NBC television)

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