Opera
- Benjamin Britten – Billy Budd, with libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier
- Paul Dessau – The Trial of Lucullus, with libretto by Bertolt Brecht (March 18, Berlin), despite rumours that the work would be forbidden by the East German authorities.
- Marcel Landowski – Le Rire de Nils Halerius
- Gian-Carlo Menotti – Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Igor Stravinsky – The Rake's Progress, with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Pilgrim's Progress
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—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)
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)