Opera
- Richard Rodney Bennett – The Mines of Sulphur
- Carlisle Floyd – The Sojourner and Molly Sinclair
- Malcolm Williamson – Our Man in Havana
- Aarre Merikanto - Juha (composed 1922)
Read more about this topic: 1963 In Music
Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“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)
“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)