1963 in Music - Opera

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)

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