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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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)

    “He rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “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)