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)
Read more about this topic: 1955 In Music
Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)