1978 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Robert Ashley – Perfect Lives
  • Lorenzo Ferrero – Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil
  • Vivian Fine – The Women in the Garden
  • György Ligeti – Le grand macabre
  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Paradise Lost (libretto by Christopher Fry)
  • Aulis Sallinen – The Red Line (Punainen viiva)

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

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

    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)

    I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)