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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“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
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“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.”
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