Opera
- Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi, composed in 1641, after Homer.
- Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, composed 1688, after Virgil.
- Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz, composed 1856-8 after Virgil.
- Achilles by John Gay, composed in 1733
- La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach composed in 1864
- Troilus and Cressida by William Walton composed 1947-1954 after Chaucer.
- King Priam by Michael Tippett, composed 1958-61 after Homer.
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)