Opera
- Jorge Antunes – Olga
- Tan Dun – The First Emperor
- Stephen Hartke – The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif
- Stuart MacRae – The Assassin Tree (with libretto by Simon Armitage)
- Ernst Mahle – O Garatuja
- Ronaldo Miranda – A Tempestade
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez – La Curandera
- Ned Rorem – Our Town
- Kaija Saariaho – Adriana Mater
- Somtow Sucharitkul – Ayodhya
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Famous quotes containing the word opera:
“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)
“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)
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
—Maria Jeritza (1887–1982)