Opera
- Alberto Ginastera – Beatrix Cenci
- Hans Werner Henze – Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
- Lee Hoiby – Summer and Smoke
- Heitor Villa-Lobos – Yerma
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“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
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