1987 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • John Adams – Nixon in China
  • Friedrich Cerha – Der Rattenfänger (The Pied Piper)
  • Michael Nyman – Vital Statistics
  • Judith Weir – A Night at the Chinese Opera

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

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

    “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 is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)