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:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“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)
“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)