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:

    “Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
    —Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)

    “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)

    “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.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)