Opera
- Franco Alfano – Cyrano de Bergerac
- George Enescu – Œdipe, op. 23, staged 13 March, Paris Opera
- Emmerich Kalman – Kaiserin Josephine
- Bohuslav Martinů – Divadlo za branou (The Suburban Theater)
- Gian Carlo Menotti – Amelia al Ballo
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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)
“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)
“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)