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:
“He rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“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)
“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)