Opera
- Samuel Adler – The Outcast of Poker Flat
- Jurriaan Andriessen – Kalchas
- Claude Arrieu – La cabine téléphonique (March 15, 1959, RTF)
- Henk Badings – Salto mortale (TV chamber opera), Nederlandse Televisie Sichting, June 19, 1959
- Samuel Barber – A Hand of Bridge
- Grażyna Bacewicz – Przygoda króla Artura
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl – Aniara
- Carlos Chávez – Love Propitiated October 28, 1959, Mexico City (revised version of Panfilo e Lauretta)
- Paul Dessau – Puntila
- Ferenc Farkas – Paradies der Schwiegersöhne
- Nicolas Flagello – The Judgment of St Francis
- Lukas Foss – Introductions and Goodbyes (a nine-minute opera, libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks – The Glittering Gate (New York, May 15, 1959)
- Jakov Gotovac – Stanac
- Alan Hovhaness – Blue Flame, op. 172
- Sven-Eric Johanson – Kunskapens vin
- Elizabeth Maconchy – The Sofa
- Carl Orff – Oedipus der Tyrann (Stuttgart, December 11, 1959)
- Francis Poulenc – La Voix humaine
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)