Opera
- Michael Abels – Homies and Popz
- John Coolidge Adams – El Niño (opera-oratorio)
- Peter Maxwell Davies – Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
- Carlisle Floyd – Cold Sassy Tree
- Cristóbal Halffter – Don Quijote
- Jake Heggie – Dead Man Walking
- Michael Nyman – Facing Goya
- Poul Ruders – The Handmaid's Tale
- Sheila Silver – The Thief of Love
- Richard Thomas – Tourette's Diva
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“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 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)