1993 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Daron Hagen – Shining Brow
  • Theo Loevendie – Gassir, the Hero
  • Michael Nyman – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
  • Randolph Peters – Nosferatu
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Dienstag aus Licht (May 28, Leipzig Opera)
  • Hugo Weisgall – Esther (October, New York City Opera)

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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)

    “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)

    “The opera house sparkled with tiers
    And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)