Opera
- Harrison Birtwistle – The Mask of Orpheus
- Philip Glass – Akhnaten
- Philip Glass – the CIVIL warS (Rome section)
- Krzysztof Penderecki – The Black Mask
- Peter Schickele – The Abduction of Figaro, attributed to P. D. Q. Bach.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Samstag aus Licht (produced by La Scala, Milan)
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“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)