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:
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)