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 real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)
“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)