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:
“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)