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