Opera
- Deborah Drattell – Nicholas and Alexandra
- Osvaldo Golijov – Ainadamar
- Michael Nyman – Man and Boy: Dada
- Krzysztof Penderecki – Ubu Rex
- Rachel Portman – The Little Prince
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Sonntag aus Licht (and with it, the entire Licht cycle of seven operas)
Read more about this topic: 2003 In Music
Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“He rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)