2005 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Mark Adamo – Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess
  • John Coolidge Adams – Doctor Atomic
  • Philippe Boesmans – Julie
  • Richard Danielpour – Margaret Garner
  • Matthew Dewey – The Death of Chatterton
  • Lorenzo Ferrero – La conquista
  • Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Amor Aeternus – Hymns of Love
  • Lorin Maazel – 1984
  • Roger Waters – Ça Ira

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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)