Opera
- Jurriaan Andriessen – Het zwarte blondje
- Samuel Barber – Vanessa (revised version)
- Luciano Berio – Traces
- Benjamin Britten – Curlew River, op. 71
- Alberto Ginastera – Don Rodrigo, op. 31
- Hans Werner Henze – Der junge Lord
- Bruno Maderna – Hyperion
- Gian Carlo Menotti – Martin's Lie
- Joaquín Rodrigo – El hijo fingido (zarzuela)
- Robert Ward – The Lady from Colorado
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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)
“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)