Opera
- Samuel Adler – The Outcast of Poker Flat
- Jurriaan Andriessen – Kalchas
- Claude Arrieu – La cabine téléphonique (March 15, 1959, RTF)
- Henk Badings – Salto mortale (TV chamber opera), Nederlandse Televisie Sichting, June 19, 1959
- Samuel Barber – A Hand of Bridge
- Grażyna Bacewicz – Przygoda króla Artura
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl – Aniara
- Carlos Chávez – Love Propitiated October 28, 1959, Mexico City (revised version of Panfilo e Lauretta)
- Paul Dessau – Puntila
- Ferenc Farkas – Paradies der Schwiegersöhne
- Nicolas Flagello – The Judgment of St Francis
- Lukas Foss – Introductions and Goodbyes (a nine-minute opera, libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks – The Glittering Gate (New York, May 15, 1959)
- Jakov Gotovac – Stanac
- Alan Hovhaness – Blue Flame, op. 172
- Sven-Eric Johanson – Kunskapens vin
- Elizabeth Maconchy – The Sofa
- Carl Orff – Oedipus der Tyrann (Stuttgart, December 11, 1959)
- Francis Poulenc – La Voix humaine
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“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)
“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 (1752–1840)