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 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)
“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)
“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)