Opera
- Samuel Barber – Vanessa
- John Eaton – Ma Barker
- Bohuslav Martinů – The Greek Passion
- Douglas Moore – Gallantry
- Ildebrando Pizzetti – Assassinio nella Cattedrale
- Francis Poulenc – Dialogues of the Carmelites (Dialogues des Carmelites)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos – Daughter of the Clouds
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)