Opera
- Paul Frederic Bowles – Denmark Vesey
- Paul Hindemith – Mathis der Maler
- Dmitri Kabalevsky – Colas Breugnon
- Jeronimas Kacinskas – Nonet
- Ernst Krenek – Karl V
- Douglas Stuart Moore – The Devil and Daniel Webster
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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)
“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)
“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)