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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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)
“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)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)