1984 in Music - Opera

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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