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:
“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)
“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)