1940 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Luigi Dallapiccola - Volo di notte
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Semyon Kotko (libretto by Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev)
  • Geirr Tveitt – Dragaredokko

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