1985 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Dominick Argento – Casanova's Homecoming
  • Lorenzo Ferrero
    • Mare nostro
    • Salvatore Giuliano
    • Night
  • Philip Glass and Robert Moran – The Juniper Tree
  • Hans Werner Henze – The English Cat
  • Dorothy Rudd Moore – Frederick Douglass

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