Opera
- Robert Ashley – Perfect Lives (An opera for television)
- Leonard Bernstein – A Quiet Place
- Oliver Knussen – Where the Wild Things Are (children's)
- Olivier Messiaen – Saint François d'Assise
- Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus)
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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)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“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)