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:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“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)