Opera
- Jurriaan Andriessen – Het zwarte blondje
- Samuel Barber – Vanessa (revised version)
- Luciano Berio – Traces
- Benjamin Britten – Curlew River, op. 71
- Alberto Ginastera – Don Rodrigo, op. 31
- Hans Werner Henze – Der junge Lord
- Bruno Maderna – Hyperion
- Gian Carlo Menotti – Martin's Lie
- Joaquín Rodrigo – El hijo fingido (zarzuela)
- Robert Ward – The Lady from Colorado
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)