Opera
- Ralph Benatzky - Im weissen Rössl
- Leoš Janáček - From the House of the Dead
- Arnold Schoenberg - Von Heute auf Morgen (1 February 1930, Frankfurt)
- Kurt Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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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)
“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)