1998 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Mark Adamo – Little Women
  • Christopher Butterfield – Zurich 1916
  • Philip Glass – White Raven
  • Heinz Holliger - Schneewittchen
  • Constantine Koukias - The Divine Kiss
  • Ryan Ostrander -Madame Butterfly

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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)

    “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)

    “The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)