1985 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Dominick Argento – Casanova's Homecoming
  • Lorenzo Ferrero
    • Mare nostro
    • Salvatore Giuliano
    • Night
  • Philip Glass and Robert Moran – The Juniper Tree
  • Hans Werner Henze – The English Cat
  • Dorothy Rudd Moore – Frederick Douglass

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

    “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)

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