1999 in Music - Opera

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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