1971 in Music - Opera

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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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

    “A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “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?”
    —Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)