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 Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“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)
“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)