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 is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“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)