Opera
- Jorge Antunes – Olga
- Tan Dun – The First Emperor
- Stephen Hartke – The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif
- Stuart MacRae – The Assassin Tree (with libretto by Simon Armitage)
- Ernst Mahle – O Garatuja
- Ronaldo Miranda – A Tempestade
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez – La Curandera
- Ned Rorem – Our Town
- Kaija Saariaho – Adriana Mater
- Somtow Sucharitkul – Ayodhya
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)
“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)