Opera
- William Bolcom – A View from the Bridge
- Deborah Drattell – Festival of Regrets
- Rued Langgaard – Antikrist (composed 1921-30, premiered 1999)
- Daron Hagen – Bandanna
- John Harbison – The Great Gatsby
- Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Terra Terra – The Aquarius Era
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“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] (1835–1910)
“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)