1968 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Benjamin Britten – The Prodigal Son
  • Carlos Chávez – Los visitantes (revision of Panfilo e Lauretta)
  • Peter Maxwell Davies – Revelation and Fall
  • Gian Carlo Menotti – Help, Help, The Globolinks!
  • Ástor Piazzolla – María de Buenos Aires

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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)

    “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 is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)