1961 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Jean Françaix – La Princesse de Clèves
  • Vittorio Giannini – The Harvest
  • Robert Ward – The Crucible
  • Grace Williams – The Parlour
  • Hans Werner Henze - Elegy for Young Lovers, libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
  • Luigi Nono - Intolleranza 1960

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