Opera
- Daron Hagen – Shining Brow
- Theo Loevendie – Gassir, the Hero
- Michael Nyman – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
- Randolph Peters – Nosferatu
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Dienstag aus Licht (May 28, Leipzig Opera)
- Hugo Weisgall – Esther (October, New York City Opera)
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The opera isnt over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of dont count your chickens before theyre hatched. This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartletts Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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