Opera
- Du Mingxin – Women Generals of the Yangs
- Lukas Foss – Introductions and Goodbyes (a nine minute opera, libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, composed 1959, premiered on May 5, 1960)
- Luigi Nono – Intolleranza 1960
Read more about this topic: 1960 In Music
Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)