1990 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Gerald Barry – The Intelligence Park
  • Azio Corghi – Blimunda
  • Mark Lanz Weiser – Purgatory (chamber opera, based on a play by William Butler Yeats)

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

    “The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
    —Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)

    “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)